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 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IDKZR-0000NC-UP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:37:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6ODZYqW021543; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:35:34 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6ODVIVT015052 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:31:18 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE24F8D33C for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:18:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21655-03 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:18:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from snowflake (82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.57.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4A18D305 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:18:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:30:54 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Forbid using versions in DESCRIPTION Message-ID: <20070724143054.18423d13@snowflake> In-Reply-To: References: <46A5DE60.50708@gentoo.org> <20070724133625.065963b7@luna.home> <46A5E634.3030903@gentoo.org> <20070724131614.0cb1593f@snowflake> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.13; 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="Sig__M1LT8Cgeu/aI_7omR=59yz"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: dac8b403-f347-468c-86ff-25bde5b2ff32 X-Archives-Hash: c5f321d14dd9bb1d12d3d95137fd9c1d --Sig__M1LT8Cgeu/aI_7omR=59yz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:18:46 +0200 Tiziano M=C3=BCller wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:44:52 +0200 > > "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" wrote: > >> Perhaps we should just move DESCRIPTIONs to metadata. That would > >> make it impossible to use ${PV} and more importantly also remove > >> some duplication. > >=20 > > Got to be careful here. In the past it's been stated that Portage > > won't use XML for anything that it has to parse. >=20 > Well, if/when DESCRIPTION is moved to metadata, this must be changed. The intention was to stick with things that could be parsed quickly and easily, without relying upon slow library code. Whether that's still an issue these days what with the Portage people who were saying that the loudest not being around any more is up for debate... Although, at the other end of the scale, Daniel claims that he wanted to move all ebuild metadata into metadata.xml... > Unless we change the metadata format as well (to yaml for example :-) The only specification-compliant yaml parser is written in C, has only the bottom two layers of the stack and no usable external bindings... Perhaps you mean "something that's basically yaml except with reserved string-start characters not handled correctly", in which case there's Syck... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig__M1LT8Cgeu/aI_7omR=59yz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGpf8O96zL6DUtXhERAo4vAKCMx9G4rwV4ekdQ6ZV92klrNeo8JgCgpgbx KjlzWMWJ5S2KsR8TXJpZdsU= =h6+b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig__M1LT8Cgeu/aI_7omR=59yz-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list