Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 15:43:20 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: "James Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net> Cc: <ports@freebsd.org>, "Rich Morin" <rdm@cfcl.com> Subject: Re: XML-based ports system ? Message-ID: <016801c0e87f$ff8a05a0$931576d8@inethouston.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> <3B1408A2.D59D772B@thehousleys.net>
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> 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. I can understand that, spamming gnats myself and maybe eventually a committer. That's why I think its more of a decision for the openpackages team and should be discussed there. I don't see the ports system changing much until openpackages replaces it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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