From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 11 00:01:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25504 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:01:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25467 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:01:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.54.180] (helo=myrddin.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zzcHn-0002UF-00; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:01:20 +0000 Received: from localhost (myrddin.demon.co.uk) [127.0.0.1] by myrddin.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zzc6R-0002SX-00; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 07:49:35 +0000 To: Amancio Hasty Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Pkg System (Re: State of the union, 1999. ) References: <199901110416.UAA13553@rah.star-gate.com> From: Dom Mitchell In-Reply-To: Amancio Hasty's message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:16:55 -0800" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 07:49:35 +0000 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Amancio Hasty writes: > Has anyone thought of using XML , for instance, CDF - Channel Distribution > Format, for describing packages? It sounds a lovely idea for describing the metadata of packages, IMHO. Definitely prefererrable to the overloaded lines of text that we have now. However, you would have to bring in a fair amount of XML related software into the tree. Given that Unix is traditionally a text-processing system, I personally think that this would be a step forward. I'd love to have XML stuff in the base system that I can use. easily. But, to bring that much code in *just* for the packages mechanism is probably overkill. You'd need to start using it elsewhere to really pay off. -- When I said "we", officer, I was referring to myself, the four young ladies, and, of course, the goat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message