Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 16:50:53 +0400 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: Philippe Laquet <stom@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> Subject: Re: New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps)) Message-ID: <20070512165053.8e53f5a3.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4645AFAF.7010704@free.fr> References: <200705102105.27271.blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za> <f20c8u$htp$1@sea.gmane.org> <20070512155059.92011d54.stas@FreeBSD.org> <4645AFAF.7010704@free.fr>
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--Signature=_Sat__12_May_2007_16_50_53_+0400_feIP48SCkXX.73fL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Sat, 12 May 2007 14:14:39 +0200 Philippe Laquet <stom@free.fr> mentioned: > > > XML could be an altertative to order packages, it can be parsed with > some limited dependencies like PERL. The userland tools to manage > packages could be based on that language? It is well known by many > users, quite simple, required by many other packages so the whole system > won't be much heavier. PERL XML Parser can't be a good choice? > > * PERL-DB for managing packages databases > * PERL-XML for parsing categories, dependencies ... > > PERL also give , in most cases, good performance issues. > I agree, that there's a lot of ready tools for parsing xml, but why not use much simple language that can be parsed by sed or awk in few lines? Will not require dependecies at all and much simplier (read better). The entire FreeBSD's ideology is to be as simple as possible but powerful. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE --Signature=_Sat__12_May_2007_16_50_53_+0400_feIP48SCkXX.73fL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGRbgtK/VZk+smlYERAtLmAJ9RtK5oETBR0ZIucNYKoNBeJLpaawCff3po 9OHyqsGVgfBS+mF2ku0f7xM= =3PLh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Sat__12_May_2007_16_50_53_+0400_feIP48SCkXX.73fL--
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