On 9 Mar 2001, at 11:01, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:58:56PM +1300, Dan Langille wrote:
> > On 9 Mar 2001, at 10:55, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> >
> > > > > It's my long term goal to produce a proper branch mailing list, but
> > > > > this means doing clever stuff with the commits because it's
> > > > > possible for a committer to affect more than one branch at a time.
> > > >
> > > > This is also a goal of FreshPorts2. I guess we're going to have to
> > > > look closely at this characteristic of the header. Either that or
> > > > compile the XML at the same time as the cvs-all message is created.
> > >
> > > It makes more sense to generate XML at message generation time IMO.
> > > How that intergrates into the current scheme of things however is a
> > > different question.
> >
> > Agreed. Parsing a cvs-all mail message is not the easiest thing to do.
> > Having access to the original data at message generation time is the
> > ideal situation. I'm sure there's a design pattern which fits this
> > application precisely.
>
> The good thing about generating XML is that it can be hardcoded if
> necessary, whereas it's probably easier to use a library to decode it.
Agreed.
> If
> we needed to install a library on the machine that's running
> CVSROOT/scripts that would make it a real PITA.
I can't see that being necessary. If we were to provide code, it would be
a plug-and-go situation.
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