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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 34: Per-Category metadata.xml Files
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:59:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4236A3F3.5090301@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050313153816.56c6f684@snowdrop>

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
[...]
> It is proposed that the existing ``metadata.xml`` format [1]_ be used.
> Even though XML sucks, there is already a framework in place for these
> files.  The filename will be ``blah-misc/metadata.xml``. The character set
> used shall be UTF-8 for consistency with GLEP 31 [2]_.

Perhaps you might want to remove any subjective opinions from the GLEP. 
Specifically, "XML sucks", since it doesn't suck. People just abuse it 
too much.

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-13 15:38 [gentoo-dev] GLEP 34: Per-Category metadata.xml Files Ciaran McCreesh
2005-03-15  8:59 ` Sven Vermeulen [this message]

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