Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:31:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Pkg System (Re: State of the union, 1999. ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901111025220.429-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0zzc6R-0002SX-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk>
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Dom Mitchell wrote: > Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> writes: > > Has anyone thought of using XML , for instance, CDF - Channel Distribution > > Format, for describing packages? > > It sounds a lovely idea for describing the metadata of packages, > IMHO. Definitely prefererrable to the overloaded lines of text that > we have now. > > However, you would have to bring in a fair amount of XML related > software into the tree. XML parsers (unlike proper SGML parsers) can be extremely lightweight, particularly if only limited validation is needed. There are a couple good lightweight XML parsers available now. I have thought many times about moving port metadata into XML (COMMENT, PKG, PLIST, not to mention a variety of things currently in the Makefile.) but I have no time to experiment and I hadn't really thought about packages. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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