On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:59:39PM -0500, Benjamin Reed wrote: > Pavel Volkovitskiy wrote: > >Hello > > > >I've look through mail arhive of this list and saw active disscussion > >about using nice xml-based format for *.info files? but now it's seems > >nobody working on it... could anybody explain what happends with that idea? > > it was dropped, because it was a reasonably high barrier to new packager > adoption, if I recall correctly.
Yup. Also there was nobody with either the time and programming skills to implement it or the people skills to get someone else to implement it. At one point a Maintainer mentioned that he used xml and then had a ->.info converter, and indeed this seems like an easy thing to write if one wanted to base one's own things on xml. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
