On 15 Dec 2015 10:24, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > i looked through portage code and we do have xml parsing sprinkled > throughout, mostly in repoman for obvious reasons. why are we trying to > avoid xml? to be honest i don't have strong feelings about either the > flat file (a la /etc/passwd) or xml. > > i'm interested in this because the hardened-sources kernel does make use > of some special uid/gids. gengor pointed me to glep 27 and suggested > that i implement it but i wasn't that interested. still, it would clean > up the hardened.
i don't think XML adds that much over RST, and are trivial to parse, both on an ad-hoc basis, as well as python has modules to enable it. i think most people would agree RST or flat text files are less verbose than XML w/out really losing that much (if anything). at the time i was thinking XML purely because we were much more of an XML shop at the time (we had guidexml and metadata.xml), but with the rise of wiki/github/glep and the fall of guidexml, the project has moved on. -mike
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