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 1EY4sh-0001Z9-Ve for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:57:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA4GuQqK010112; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:56:26 GMT Received: from hermes.orakel.ods.org (dsl67-66.fastxdsl.nl [62.251.66.67]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA4GqlhT014362 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:52:47 GMT Received: from aphrodite.orakel.ods.org ([172.17.2.15]) by hermes.orakel.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.54) id 1EY4ny-0002Yo-H1 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:52:42 +0100 Message-ID: <436B91D9.8010800@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:52:41 +0100 From: Grobian Organization: Gentoo Foundation User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.4.1 (Macintosh/20051006) 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> <436B8DE5.9090004@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <436B8DE5.9090004@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Content-Scanned: by hermes.orakel.ods.org (Exim Exiscan) using SpamAssassin and ClamAV Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id jA4GuQru010112 X-Archives-Salt: 8041ac19-1b7f-47d0-9418-449b6e4001f0 X-Archives-Hash: 824f06f805746c80beed572c5a401e22 Danny van Dyk wrote: > 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. This is an important aspect for sure, but why can't such file be=20 generated from a marked up one? Because the same message will be put in=20 multiple forms (ideally) it is best to have a version with all the=20 required meta-data to generate all the other formats, because if you=20 have to add such meta-data it's usually much worse (=3D manual or=20 conditional human work). Some people like reading console messages, others plain text mail=20 messages, others want html marked up mail messages, other others like=20 reading an rss-feed, and of course there are people that like to read=20 the full fledged funky marked up with all hyperlinks possible html=20 version on the web. I think the only real importance is that all representations can easily=20 be generated from the original source, be that XML, reStructuredText or=20 any other format. With regard to being it hard to write or not, I think these kind of=20 messages are very well suited for templates, so it is just a matter of=20 filling in the message, which should make the underlying format not so=20 important. Just my =E2=82=AC0.02 on the XML vs. plain text discussion. --=20 Fabian Groffen --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list