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 1EXfYR-0003XY-SA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:55:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA3DsHoj022487; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:54:17 GMT Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA3DqW6x014779 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:52:32 GMT Received: from [67.191.242.121] (c-67-191-242-121.hsd1.ga.comcast.net[67.191.242.121]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20051103135157013003atkle>; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:52:03 +0000 Message-ID: <436A1576.5070909@ieee.org> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 08:49:42 -0500 From: "Nathan L. Adams" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050722) 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@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <200511011722.29840.jkt@gentoo.org> <20051101182506.4dd701f6@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051101182506.4dd701f6@snowdrop.home> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jA3DsHqL022487 X-Archives-Salt: fd28bab2-c37a-48bc-8eb4-7e504312d2d8 X-Archives-Hash: 12897f5465c14e9bede15f5f83c05714 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:22:29 +0100 Jan Kundr=C3=A1t wro= te: > | What's wrong with XML format similar to the one that is used for our > | GLSAs? >=20 > 1. Portage does not handle XML. Portage will not handle XML in the > near future. >=20 > 2. Many users do not have an XML parser installed. >=20 > 3. The standard Unix tools cannot be used on XML files. >=20 > 4. Bloat. >=20 > 5. XML is merely adding another problem to the one we have already. >=20 6. Ciaran is completely biased against XML (or anything that isn't stored as a simple flat file) ;) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDahV22QTTR4CNEQARArcBAJ9OKq5xfST4dCq0aUCLYw4DxUXdbQCbBPmD b02OM9czrkinjosTw4zCC5I=3D =3DFr/5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list