Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 22:07:54 +0300 From: Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, hackers@freebsd.org, spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua Subject: Re: Idea for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20080808190754.GA6827@ravenloft.kiev.ua>
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > 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. I never said anything like this. Only that argument about 'to have another shlib or two... available early in the boot process' is invalid. -- Adios
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