Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 00:06:16 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs mailing list for RELENG_4 only? Message-ID: <200103091106.f29B6Gw87314@ns1.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <20010309110103.E40040@tao.org.uk> References: <200103091058.f29Awuw87228@ns1.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:58:56PM %2B1300
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On 9 Mar 2001, at 11:01, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:58:56PM +1300, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 9 Mar 2001, at 10:55, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > This is also a goal of FreshPorts2. I guess we're going to have to > > > > look closely at this characteristic of the header. Either that or > > > > compile the XML at the same time as the cvs-all message is created. > > > > > > It makes more sense to generate XML at message generation time IMO. > > > How that intergrates into the current scheme of things however is a > > > different question. > > > > Agreed. Parsing a cvs-all mail message is not the easiest thing to do. > > Having access to the original data at message generation time is the > > ideal situation. I'm sure there's a design pattern which fits this > > 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. Agreed. > If > we needed to install a library on the machine that's running > CVSROOT/scripts that would make it a real PITA. I can't see that being necessary. If we were to provide code, it would be a plug-and-go situation. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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