[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] IMPORTANT: The proposal for the metadata.xml file

[Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 02:41, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 02:17:03AM +0200, Lars Weiler wrote:
> > * Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> [03/06/27 23:31 +0200]:
> > >I prefer plaintext changelogs. Maybe we can have both and make repoman 
> > >parse plaintext files during commits and portage convert back from xml 
> > >on request.
> > 
> > XML _is_ plain text.  You can edit it quite simple with your
> > usual text-editor.  Only that XML will give you the
> > advantage of "naming" texts.  What is done now with a
> > special kind of formatting (date, name, mail-address, ...)
> > or indention will be surrounded by XML-tags.
> > 
> > If you prefer text without XML-tags it would be quite easy
> > writing a script that will translate the ChangeLog into the
> > "old" way and displaying it.  Gernerating HTML-pages or
> > anything else is also quite simple.  One of the benefits
> > using XML!
> > 
> 
> XML is plaintext in the sense that a C file is plaintext: you can read 
> and write it with a text editor, but that doesn't mean anyone and their 
> mother can easily come along and read it.

Ditto.

XML is like the new girl in school ... everybody needs to do her.


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa



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