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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.




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