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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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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-08  1:44 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
2001-12-08  1:44               ` Mikael Hallendal [this message]

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