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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:01:03 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs mailing list for RELENG_4 only?
Message-ID:  <20010309110103.E40040@tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200103091058.f29Awuw87228@ns1.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:58:56PM %2B1300
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On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:58:56PM +1300, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 9 Mar 2001, at 10:55, Josef Karthauser wrote:
>=20
> > > > It's my long term goal to produce a proper branch mailing list, but
> > > > this means doing clever stuff with the commits because it's possible
> > > > for a committer to affect more than one branch at a time.
> > >=20
> > > This is also a goal of FreshPorts2.  I guess we're going to have to l=
ook
> > > closely at this characteristic of the header.  Either that or compile=
 the
> > > XML at the same time as the cvs-all message is created.
> >=20
> > It makes more sense to generate XML at message generation time IMO.  How
> > that intergrates into the current scheme of things however is a differe=
nt
> > question.
>=20
> Agreed.  Parsing a cvs-all mail message is not the easiest thing to do. =
=20
> Having access to the original data at message generation time is the=20
> ideal situation.  I'm sure there's a design pattern which fits this=20
> application precisely.

The good thing about generating XML is that it can be hardcoded if
necessary, whereas it's probably easier to use a library to decode it.
If we needed to install a library on the machine that's running
CVSROOT/scripts that would make it a real PITA.

Joe

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