From: Geert Bevin <gbevin@theleaf.be>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE database?
Date: 07 Dec 2001 22:43:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1007761438.10711.3.camel@inspiron.theleaf.office> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011207153922.I9706@chiba.3jane.net>
Well it's maybe nice to edit in an xml editor, but as plain text it's
quite confusing.
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 22:39, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:28:05PM +0100, Sebastian Werner wrote:
>
> > Why not XML... it's really nice to edit i think
>
> Because XML requires a whole new bloated, slow parser, and the python
> parser is fast and the syntax is lean and mean. Also, if we port to
> C, it would be more effective to support "python-style" dictionary
> definitions that include and entire XML parser. Also consider that
> XML has no equivalent of python dictionaries.
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Geert Bevin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-07 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-03 1:06 [gentoo-dev] USE database? Zach Forrest
2001-12-03 7:41 ` AW: " Sebastian Werner
2001-12-03 9:13 ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-03 10:02 ` AW: " Sebastian Werner
2001-12-03 10:12 ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-03 11:05 ` AW: " Sebastian Werner
2001-12-03 11:05 ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-03 11:26 ` AW: " Sebastian Werner
2001-12-03 11:32 ` [gentoo-dev] New ideas, USE database, sandbox & more Vitaly Kushneriuk
2001-12-03 11:48 ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-03 12:55 ` Vitaly Kushneriuk
2001-12-03 14:01 ` Joshua Pierre
2001-12-03 16:06 ` Vitaly Kushneriuk
2001-12-03 16:28 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-03 18:00 ` Vitaly Kushneriuk
2001-12-03 16:48 ` [gentoo-dev] USE database? Daniel Robbins
2001-12-06 6:01 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-06 18:12 ` Zach Forrest
2001-12-06 20:38 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-06 22:33 ` Zach Forrest
2001-12-06 23:40 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-06 23:52 ` Zach Forrest
2001-12-07 19:28 ` Sebastian Werner
2001-12-07 21:39 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-07 21:43 ` Geert Bevin [this message]
2001-12-08 1:44 ` Mikael Hallendal
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