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 1EXwt2-0002Mi-6i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:25:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA48NMfu030612; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 08:23:22 GMT Received: from mailrelay1.tu-graz.ac.at (mailrelay.tu-graz.ac.at [129.27.2.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA48Jn4v000137 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 08:19:49 GMT Received: from localhost (M2627P005.adsl.highway.telekom.at [212.183.60.69]) (authenticated bits=0) by mailrelay1.tu-graz.ac.at (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA48JkFC010783 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:19:48 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 09:21:48 +0100 From: Wernfried Haas To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Message-ID: <20051104082148.GB15867@superlupo.rechner> References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <200511011722.29840.jkt@gentoo.org> <20051101182506.4dd701f6@snowdrop.home> <436A1576.5070909@ieee.org> <20051103191642.1fbdbd9d@snowdrop.home> <436AAB79.4020700@ieee.org> <20051104004247.0ff50ff0@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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051104004247.0ff50ff0@snowdrop.home> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel (Linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 129.27.10.18 X-Archives-Salt: 89e55687-2aba-4a04-aded-a8f40f4d4154 X-Archives-Hash: 2291dc8eb0505c884d64eaf46a10107f On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:42:47AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Read the list of requirements in the GLEP. The plain text solution > meets all of them. XML fails on several. > > And, incidentally, I came up with the requirements list *before* > dismissing XML. Sorry, but this is too funny. You don't like XML. You wrote the requirements. You decided XML doesn't meet those requirements. So even if you come up with the requirements *before* chances are approximately 97% XML will fail. I don't know if XML _is_ the right thing for this job, but i think you are definitely biased towards it. cheers, Wernfried -- Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org Gentoo Forums: http://forums.gentoo.org IRC: #gentoo-forums on freenode - email: forum-mods at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list