From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MFKKs-0002pY-F4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:55:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66553E0311; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay10.ispgateway.de (smtprelay10.ispgateway.de [80.67.29.24]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B254E0311 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.179.10.83] (helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtprelay10.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1MFKKp-0003P4-AD; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:55:15 +0200 Message-ID: <4A332322.60600@hartwork.org> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:55:14 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090502) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org CC: packagekit@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Inviting you to project "PackageMap" References: <4A3206DA.3090907@hartwork.org> <15e53e180906120130md68cd94nba61fa5560c73eb4@mail.gmail.com> <1722869.hSdHM5OqYb@news.friendly-coders.info> In-Reply-To: <1722869.hSdHM5OqYb@news.friendly-coders.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: 874396 X-Archives-Salt: 797a7931-edff-4943-bc2d-281a0e23660b X-Archives-Hash: a10bf3120c3de1b90c94431691c1d946 Steven J Long wrote: > You might as well use Gentoo's version specification for your internal > format, as it's the most comprehensive. The most you need to add is > debian epochs. I'm not sure what you are referring to. Please share more details or pointers. > XML was never meant for data-storage for such record-sets: it was designed > for data *interchange* [..] Interesting point. What would you use as an alternative that works well with a version control system? Sebastian