From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 3 15:38:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E25737B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heaven.gigo.com (heaven.gigo.com [64.57.102.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD99F43E4A for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:38:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lioux@brturbo.com) Received: from 200-193-224-023-bsace7003.dsl.telebrasilia.net.br (200-193-224-023-bsace7003.dsl.telebrasilia.net.br [200.193.224.23]) by heaven.gigo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE28CB85F for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:38:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 90461 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Oct 2002 22:21:02 -0000 Message-ID: <20021003222102.90460.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:20:40 -0300 From: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira To: Ernst de Haan Cc: Juli Mallett , "Andrew P. Lentvorski" , Marc Recht , Alexander Langer , phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? References: <20021002135749.4ba3abc3.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> <20021002124701.H30338-100000@mail.allcaps.org> <20021002130551.A14518@FreeBSD.org> <200210040000.28365.znerd@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210040000.28365.znerd@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE X-Disclaimer: I hope you find what you are looking for... in life :) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:00:06AM +0200, Ernst de Haan wrote: > On Wednesday 02 October 2002 22:05, Juli Mallett wrote: > [...] > > I seem to remember a discussion with Robert Watson and myself about a year > > ago where we discussed some sort of classy parser in libc for the MAC > > config files, etc., and we discussed XML at some point... Having libexpat > > around makes it a lot easier for people who need to do config files, or > > pass around data structures. [snip] > I believe the decision to put expat -in a wise manner- in the base system will > show that FreeBSD is keeping up with major movements and that it will make > FreeBSD more attractive to potential users. Well, be careful when addressing this part of "potential users". What I understood from this thread is that expat is being imported to server OUR tools. The tools that lie under src/ CVS repo. Which is an interesting move. Whatever might be our concerns/desires with XML. Whichever other tool in the system should depend on the ports version, not on OUR expat. But that's what I understood. Actually, it's a good time to clear this point out. :) -- Mario S F Ferreira - DF - Brazil - "I guess this is a signature." Computer Science Undergraduate | FreeBSD Committer | CS Developer flames to beloved devnull@someotherworldbeloworabove.org feature, n: a documented bug | bug, n: an undocumented feature To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message