On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:29 -0500, Nathan L. Adams wrote: > <rant> > You're just missing the fact that a flat file (or whatever it is you're > clinging to; for the purpose of this rant, I shall refer to your simple > data format as "flat file") has trade-offs, just like XML's trade off is > parsing overhead. XML was designed to solve certain problems; > portability of data, separation and portability of presentation from the > data, etc. Complexity in the parser is the trade-off. > Perhaps I'm missing something here but I thought the concept of --news is to get information in front of as many eyes as possible. It seems that information could just as easily be:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ This upgrade is going to be a PITA and we highly recommend that you read one (or more) of the following resources before proceeding: http://www.gentoo.org/wherever/upgrade-instructions http://forums.gentoo.org/thread=whatever http://lists.gmane.org/link-to-mail-thread. You have been warned. Have a nice day. (tm) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This would have the simplicity of a flat file and all the functionality of XML at once so we can eat our cake too. Just a thought. > > Nathan > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDaqt52QTTR4CNEQARAoQ1AJ42ItHkJ37eFUY8rSoGpN/dVoKIFACeJi7b > KW6/pzn8VEKi3hO0Gqomsms= > =cSQh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Best Regards, -- Tres Melton IRC & Gentoo: RiverRat -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
