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 1EY4XN-0007pp-3y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:35:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA4GXl1o006119; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:33:47 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA4GUPXt011258 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:30:25 GMT Received: from p83.129.21.148.tisdip.tiscali.de ([83.129.21.148] helo=[192.168.101.99]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EY4SN-0001tY-P6 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:30:24 +0000 Message-ID: <436B8DE5.9090004@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:35:49 +0100 From: Danny van Dyk User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050901) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, 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> <436A1576.5070909@ieee.org> In-Reply-To: <436A1576.5070909@ieee.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3537095f-9dc3-488b-96a9-08f5fcd4c3e0 X-Archives-Hash: b8c96821c5f5e57090be2cb45088ffde -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nathan L. Adams schrieb: | 6. Ciaran is completely biased against XML (or anything that isn't | stored as a simple flat file) ;) On the other hand one could say that there are Gentoo-Devs which are biased against anything that can work without using XML. To quote Wikipedia.org[1]: "The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for *creating special-purpose markup languages*." (Emphasis added by me.) There are occasions where creating a completely new markup language with XML does make sense. However, this particular enhancement does not need it. IMHO a text based file has a big advantage in this proposed application over fileformats which use XML: Any administrator can read it with his editor of choice, right from the console. Danny - -- Danny van Dyk Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDa4bFaVNL8NrtU6IRAgQDAJ93+rj1sI6sADnq3QCLpCWE3BYx4gCfdrv3 /6p4ZR5A0kR7akOoCEuT/44= =8moA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list