From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7D2B4139694 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2017 06:17:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91DFAE0BE9; Fri, 2 Jun 2017 06:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D885E0B73 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2017 06:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.12] (xdsl-213-196-245-6.netcologne.de [213.196.245.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jstein) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0C38A341710 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2017 06:16:52 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Addition of a new field to metadata.xml To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20170602130903.334b0d03@katipo2.lan> From: Jonas Stein Message-ID: <7aa8c65c-8356-5dce-20a8-620629348ad3@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 08:16:48 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 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 In-Reply-To: <20170602130903.334b0d03@katipo2.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 65957c29-7ecf-4d9f-b1eb-e4b5c2dcf319 X-Archives-Hash: 61d14d206c0d4c0384dc6768cf76b5b8 >> A space separated list of the corresponding debian packages should be >> written in the field >> > 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. > > libfoo > libfoo-debug > > 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