From: Mikael Hallendal <hallski@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE database?
Date: 08 Dec 2001 02:44:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1007775865.27925.6.camel@zoidberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011207153922.I9706@chiba.3jane.net>
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fre 2001-12-07 klockan 22.39 skrev Daniel Robbins:
> 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.
Actually parsing with libxml is really fast. But I agree, using XML in
these files makes no sense. It will make our basesystem depend on
libxml2 which I don't think it should.
Regards,
Mikael Hallendal
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Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden
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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
2001-12-08 1:44 ` Mikael Hallendal [this message]
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