I am also going to be looking at writing some beta code for XML info files, since that would really make many features much easier to implement, as well as making the packaging policy more strict. If we wrote a .dtd, we could enforce that the package have a license field, even if one of the values available is 'Unknown'. Another thing we can do, though this kind of conflicts with the packaging policy, is to enable the placing of multiple variants into an info file. The #DEFAULT# variant would be the one compiled into the bindist. Then stuff like blah-ssl, blah-nox, and blah-macosx, could be put into the same file. New logic for sorting out dependancies would be needed, but this is sort of a long term goal.
Any comments are welcome! Just some ideas, Kyle Moffett On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 08:17 , Max Horn wrote: > Thanks, Kyle and Randal! I really hope that this will allow work on the > "package DB" to go on. > > > I guess once the DB really works, we'll want to make storable-pm an > essential package, but at least during bootstrap, we have to go without > it. AFAIK this was the main problem holding back the DB code, wasn't > it, Finlay? > > > Max > -- ----------------------------------------------- > Max Horn > Software Developer > > email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > phone: (+49) 6151-494890 > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
