Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:37:54 -0400 From: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net> To: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> Subject: Re: XML-based ports system ? Message-ID: <3B1408A2.D59D772B@thehousleys.net> References: <20010528105709.A9284@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <p05001905b739a3d1c212@[192.168.168.205]> <00f601c0e879$82aaeaa0$931576d8@inethouston.net> <p05001906b739b197fef3@[192.168.168.205]> <013f01c0e87e$2fc5f640$931576d8@inethouston.net>
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"David W. Chapman Jr." wrote: > > > The ideal situation (IMHO) would be to separate the package and OS > > information as much as possible. This would make it possible for > > the same package description to handle a range of OS targets. This > > is a difficult thing to accomplish, however, and may take a few years > > of careful development. In the meanwhile, why not do a few, trivial > > things that will allow all of the BSDs to stop duplicating effort? > > It looks like you need to read a little more on openpackages. This is what > openpackages is supposed to fix. Changing the entire structure of ports to > XML files isn't as simple as it may seem due to the pure number of ports. > It would make more sense for openpackages to do this since they are already > starting out from scratch. > As a ports committer, on of my and probably the rest of our major concern is ease of use from our end. From what I know of XML this would be a boon for the end user. It could very well be a nightmare for port maintainers and committers. Since we would have to create usable files, Makefiles, patch files and plists, from the XML before we could build. Then after making any corrections stuff it all back into the XML. Not, the with the right tools it couldn't be done, but there will be some resistance there. Jim -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . X - NO Word docs in e-mail . / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- jeh@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve jim@TheHousleys.Net http://www.TheHousleys.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine. -- Jack O'Neill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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