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 4.50) id 1EX4AV-0000IP-TX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:59:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA1Lx6jJ014624; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:59:06 GMT Received: from www.suchdol.net (www.suchdol.net [82.208.33.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA1LvO34008979 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:57:24 GMT Received: from slon.basa.dejvice.czf (slon.basa.dejvice.czf [10.18.6.61]) by www.suchdol.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C100DD88 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:57:23 +0100 (CET) From: Jan =?utf-8?q?Kundr=C3=A1t?= Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 22:57:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <200511011722.29840.jkt@gentoo.org> <20051101182506.4dd701f6@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051101182506.4dd701f6@snowdrop.home> 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="nextPart1659677.TDZvPndimi"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511012257.22527.jkt@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 00d1c5d0-b834-430e-9311-9b65e5ebb092 X-Archives-Hash: 49946b30e86307fe069da72d5b874656 --nextPart1659677.TDZvPndimi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 01 of November 2005 19:25 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:22:29 +0100 Jan Kundr=C3=A1t wrote: > | What's wrong with XML format similar to the one that is used for our > | GLSAs? > > 1. Portage does not handle XML. Portage will not handle XML in the > near future. How will it handle GLSAs then? [1] > 5. XML is merely adding another problem to the one we have already. Could you please explain? > There is no XML in this GLEP for the same reasons that there is no > Java, CORBA, EJBs, web services, on demand computing initiatives or > invisible pink unicorns. I'm not sure if our GLSAs use PHP, ODBC, ASP, SOAP, computer grids or=20 invisible pink unicorns while I'm pretty sure they do use XML. > I have an eselect module which can read these news files. The whole > thing is about the same size as the DTD would need to be for an > XML-based solution. I have a parser written for the format in question. > The whole thing is smaller than the initialisation code for an off the > shelf XML parser. Great. Why haven't you just used existing code from `glsa-check`, BTW? > It's not a question of "what's wrong with XML?". It's a question of > "what advantage would we gain by strapping a giant flapping wet kipper > to a bicycle?". Or (a little bit rephrased) "why should we stick with consistent file=20 formats". [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/glsa-integration.xml Cheers, =2Djkt =2D-=20 cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth --nextPart1659677.TDZvPndimi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDZ+TCamXfqERyJRcRAj2dAJ43qcYOKztxO2/N9tOCMZyTdhzyrACfcgLb lSae87QZFomU9nb4U6Kf1jU= =quAh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1659677.TDZvPndimi-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list