From: Jonas Stein <jstein@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Addition of a new field <remote-id type="debian"> to metadata.xml
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 08:16:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7aa8c65c-8356-5dce-20a8-620629348ad3@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170602130903.334b0d03@katipo2.lan>
>> A space separated list of the corresponding debian packages should be
>> written in the field
>> <remote-id type="debian"> </remote-id>
> Why space separated?
> Its already legal to specify the field multiple times, and it should
> work better that way for consistency with things that can already parse
> XML.
>
> That way there's no need to put an additional parser inside our XML
> extraction.
>
> <remote-id type="debian">libfoo</remote-id>
> <remote-id type="debian">libfoo-debug</remote-id>
>
> No?
>
> It also means general purpose XML formatting tools can keep it tidy,
> _and_ sorted, without having to reinvent new tools.
That is a very good point.
We should note it as you suggested, because it fits better to xml.
Thank you.
Best,
--
Jonas Stein
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-02 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-01 21:18 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Addition of a new field <remote-id type="debian"> to metadata.xml Jonas Stein
2017-06-02 1:09 ` Kent Fredric
2017-06-02 1:36 ` Daniel Campbell
2017-06-02 6:59 ` Kent Fredric
2017-06-03 7:41 ` Daniel Campbell
2017-06-02 6:16 ` Jonas Stein [this message]
2017-06-02 7:07 ` Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov
2017-06-02 14:38 ` Kent Fredric
2017-06-02 14:51 ` Michał Górny
2017-06-02 15:22 ` Kent Fredric
2017-06-03 7:58 ` Michał Górny
2017-06-03 8:19 ` Kent Fredric
2017-06-04 12:56 ` Andrey Utkin
2017-06-04 14:54 ` Kent Fredric
2017-06-05 15:40 ` Alec Warner
2017-06-05 15:51 ` Kent Fredric
2017-08-30 20:00 ` Sebastian Pipping
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