From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2F8xXgH017319 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:59:33 GMT Received: from adicia.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.56]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DB7tk-000600-4O for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:59:32 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by adicia.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D96A44079 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:59:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from dimosys.siphos.be (d54C2A6C6.access.telenet.be [84.194.166.198]) by adicia.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517564459F for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:59:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dimosys.siphos.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC36034D8A for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:59:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4236A3F3.5090301@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:59:31 +0100 From: Sven Vermeulen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050307) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 34: Per-Category metadata.xml Files References: <20050313153816.56c6f684@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <20050313153816.56c6f684@snowdrop> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ca6a1747-ee18-437a-9603-92d18c6c3209 X-Archives-Hash: cb6eb0e52bf87f6a3a1af9d8382e76b6 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 -- ^__^ And Larry saw that it was Good. (oo) Sven Vermeulen (__) http://www.gentoo.org Documentation & PR -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list