Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:19:54 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Idea for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <86iquberlh.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20080807172650.GA56516@ravenloft.kiev.ua> (Alex Kozlov's message of "Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:26:50 %2B0300")
References:  <20080807172650.GA56516@ravenloft.kiev.ua>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua> writes:
> Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
> > [...]  XML itself is too general-purpose: it has too much baggage
> > designed for its primary function of facilitating interoperation
> > between diverse systems in different zones of control, none of which
> > is particularly applicable to system startup.
> While in general I agree with You, I must note that We already have
> xml parser (expat 1.95) for geom. See /lib/libbsdxml.so*

Non sequitur.  The fact that we have an XML parser in base does not make
XML more (or less) suitable for the task.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?86iquberlh.fsf>