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 1Mt1Yj-00019g-BH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:57:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18F15E095B; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:57:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay07.ispgateway.de (smtprelay07.ispgateway.de [80.67.31.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E86C9E095B for ; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.179.30.7] (helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtprelay07.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Mt1Z5-000091-BB for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:58:03 +0200 Message-ID: <4AC37FF2.5070702@hartwork.org> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:57:38 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090820) 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 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman-global.txt, repositories.xml, layman, overlays.gentoo.org References: <4AC0FF26.4030608@hartwork.org> <1254320785.29918.61.camel@localhost> <4AC37B0F.8090207@hartwork.org> <20090930154824.GA25000@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20090930154824.GA25000@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: 874396 X-Archives-Salt: 96ac8aa7-41c0-4546-8b23-a1d5a4f9c653 X-Archives-Hash: 33d10e9e72ee564c76f5e50ca4613e0d Fabian Groffen wrote: > Point remains that it looks in-consistant, for repo, name is an > attribute, while for owner it is a sub-element. Why having attributes > in the first place anyway? It's closer to the original layman-global.txt which also makes the converter scripts simpler (and faster) than the element approach. I think it's just right. > It's XML, so it may be extremely annoying to parse/use. Please elaborate on that. Sebastian