From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 28 15:54:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from heinz.jollem.com (c104187.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.104.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1436A37B424 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 15:54:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ernst@heinz.jollem.com) Received: (from ernst@localhost) by heinz.jollem.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4SMrBh17167; Tue, 29 May 2001 00:53:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ernst) Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 00:53:11 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan To: Thierry Thomas Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XML-based ports system ? Message-ID: <20010529005311.A17126@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> References: <20010528105709.A9284@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <20010528230655.A27331@graf.pompo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010528230655.A27331@graf.pompo.net>; from thierry@thomas.as on Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:06:55PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thomas, > > What are your ideas/opinions with respect to using XML for the ports system? > > *If* we want FreeBSD to be an XML-based OS in 5 years, then we could start > > working towards that right now. IMHO it would be awesome if FreeBSD would > > indeed use XML to replace a lot of custom file formats. > > Such a project exists, for TeX / LaTeX distributions. Look at > . I find it hard to judge what this URL is all about, but it does not seem to be an XML-based package management system? Ernst -- Ernst de Haan Java Architect Jollem Information Technology "Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message