From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2ba6-0005fn-3W for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:24:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j79LMSVG031722; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:22:28 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j79LJR0j027433 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:19:27 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1E2bVw-0002ld-Gh for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 21:20:00 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1E2bVb-00012s-65 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 22:19:39 +0100 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 22:19:35 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-config 2.0 development Message-ID: <20050809221935.5601ce98@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <1123620805.11092.18.camel@cloud.outersquare.org> References: <1123620805.11092.18.camel@cloud.outersquare.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.12 (GTK+ 2.6.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Tue__9_Aug_2005_22_19_35_+0100_LqxU3JV.28VzdlA="; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: baf3e251-0a09-4abd-bf26-cc68f40a4ae0 X-Archives-Hash: c4f992781bec81a80cd40d766ae2cec8 --Signature_Tue__9_Aug_2005_22_19_35_+0100_LqxU3JV.28VzdlA= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:53:25 -0700 Jeremy Huddleston wrote: | The configuration files are in XML. I'm a little apprehensive about | having such a core package depend on an outside library like this, As you should be. | but I think having the xml configuration files allows a much more | robust configuration. How so? Using XML doesn't magically make your data files any different. It simply makes them much harder to parse. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Tue__9_Aug_2005_22_19_35_+0100_LqxU3JV.28VzdlA= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC+R3q96zL6DUtXhERAi4VAKCalcKs4sccPWibZAII1QU+TYwEKACgwZrT HrRBnANTPcUkpwuSH3S12SQ= =oOmv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Tue__9_Aug_2005_22_19_35_+0100_LqxU3JV.28VzdlA=-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list