From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 9 17:17:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE0237B405 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from felix.automagic.org (felix.automagic.org [204.152.186.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2AEE643E5E for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:17:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jabley@felix.automagic.org) Received: (qmail 13067 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Jul 2002 00:17:18 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 17:17:18 -0700 From: Joe Abley To: Terry Lambert Cc: Wes Peters , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Doug Barton , Dan Moschuk , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020710001717.GB13050@felix.automagic.org> References: <83FD8E1F-935A-11D6-B320-00039312C852@automagic.org> <3D2B6ED6.66FAEF5B@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D2B6ED6.66FAEF5B@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:16:38PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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? Hey! You said XML would be good if the parser came in under 90M! :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message