From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3576 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2004 00:10:08 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 22 Jul 2004 00:10:08 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BnR9y-0003o3-GA for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:10:06 +0000 Received: (qmail 25472 invoked by uid 89); 22 Jul 2004 00:10:06 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13815 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2004 00:10:05 +0000 X-Authentication-Warning: rocky.richmond.edu: apache set sender to spyderous@gentoo.org using -f Message-ID: <39928.205.241.48.33.1090454939.squirrel@spidermail.richmond.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:08:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donnie Berkholz" To: In-Reply-To: <20040722005540.69891157@sven.genone.homeip.net> References: <20040721163435.7F10B3F03@latitude.mynet.no-ip.org> <200407212032.59857.stuart@gentoo.org> <20040722005540.69891157@sven.genone.homeip.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.10) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MailScanner-SpamxCheck: , X-MailScanner-From: spyderous@gentoo.org X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting GLEP 19 X-Archives-Salt: 02deea11-ecf8-4d15-b240-cb9274208585 X-Archives-Hash: f2cb92aec538ab4fbed1b99f95928d05 Marius Mauch said: > I'm not completely opposed to XML although I see little use here, but I > see the big show stopper: Transition. We have a live tree as well as a > dozen tools (estimated) using the Changelogs, some of them aren't even > under our control (gentoo-portage.com and porthole are popular > examples). How do you plan to change the format in such an environment? > Without an answer to that question the whole issue is academic. Wouldn't a new file called ChangeLog.xml solve this? If it exists, use it. If not, default to the old plain-text ChangeLog. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list