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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 16:16:38 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>,
	Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>,
	Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Package system flaws?
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Joe Abley wrote:
> On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 10:09 , Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Wes Peters wrote:
> >> The more you write, the more I see XML as being terribly appropriate
> >> for the package metadata.  Consider the nesting problem; XML handles
> >> this with complete grace if you write it into the DTD that a package
> >> can contain a package.
> >
> > XML would be good, if you didn't have to have 90M of crap in order
> > to parse it.
> 
> felix# ls -al /usr/local/lib/libxml.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  399096 Jul  9 09:39 /usr/local/lib/libxml.a
> felix#

There's 1/3 of a floppy disc gone... the cut down "vi" is what, 27K?

-- Terry

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