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 1EYBhq-00081T-UW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 00:14:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA50DfC0013895; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 00:13:41 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 jA50BaWc030453 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 00:11:36 GMT Received: from gentoo.xs4all.nl ([213.84.68.112] helo=[10.0.0.2]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EYBeh-0005Lk-J0 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 00:11:35 +0000 Message-ID: <436BF8B6.6050804@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 01:11:34 +0100 From: Xavier Neys User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051026) 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> <200511012257.22527.jkt@gentoo.org> <20051101221635.1a53a258@snowdrop.home> <200511021933.38078.jkt@gentoo.org> <20051102223443.042bae23@snowdrop.home> <436B6F94.4060205@gentoo.org> <436BAF93.7080205@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <436BAF93.7080205@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: da766c71-a74e-44e7-ad39-38a240ba25f9 X-Archives-Hash: b4d0f6c14bfeade9e3b3ce6b745d1673 Danny van Dyk wrote: > Xavier Neys schrieb: > | Discarding XML for the reasons some are using is like recommending > | key=value flat .ini files because windows used it in the 80s. > | They have to be parsed as well, and, as opposed to XML, you have to > | check for unknown keys, double keys, missing ones, then you need some > | grouping and you introduce [sections], which you have to check as well, > | no doubles, no missing ones, no illegal ones, then you need a deeper > | hierarchy and you use key=/path/to/another/file.ini... > He suggested using a RFC822 style Header. Please stick to the facts... Had you read that bit properly, you would have noticed I was quoting someone else. Had you read the post to the end, you would have realised I understand that and that I even support it. -- / Xavier Neys \_ Gentoo Documentation Project / French & Internationalisation Lead \ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en /\ -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list