Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-06 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Hendrik Boom writes: Liinux has a decent file system. It has a decent set of tools for manageing them. Its file systems even have mechanisms for storing many small files. It even has symbolic links, that can be see-also's. I really don't see that the problem of storing menus requires furthe

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 04:26:15AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 23:43:33 -0400 > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 03:15:24PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > And the preceding system is human readable, human parsable, and to a > > > degree human creatable. But..

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-06 Thread aitor_czr
On 08/06/2016 03:10 PM, aitor_czr wrote: She was the mathematical Mathematician ? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-06 Thread aitor_czr
On 08/06/2016 02:00 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein Albert Einstein..., an his wife. Be sure. She had the knowledge about covariant and contravariant vectors, etc... She was the mathematical :) Aitor. _

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 10:39:14AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote: > In the case of simple parsing requirements, I prefer to have the > program itself do the parsing instead of relying on an external > parser. This remove the extra dependency on the parser. > > I would also like to comment on the tex

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-06 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
On 06-08-16 10:39, Edward Bartolo wrote: In the case of simple parsing requirements, I prefer to have the program itself do the parsing instead of relying on an external parser. This remove the extra dependency on the parser. I would also like to comment on the text file format in which menus an

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-06 Thread Edward Bartolo
In the case of simple parsing requirements, I prefer to have the program itself do the parsing instead of relying on an external parser. This remove the extra dependency on the parser. I would also like to comment on the text file format in which menus and menu trees will be stored. If I were to c

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 23:43:33 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 03:15:24PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > And the preceding system is human readable, human parsable, and to a > > degree human creatable. But... > > > > Human creatable is relative. Yes, adding a new node to the me

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 23:43:33 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > The JSON I saw wasn't XML-encoded. I saw no end tags, though it did > have matching curly brackets. See > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#Example When I said "end tags", I was including ending curly braces. Matter of fact, those are

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 03:15:24PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 04:29:53 -0400 > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 07:50:26AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > I suggest a simple text file to store all menu information in a > > > format that

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 04:29:53 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 07:50:26AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I suggest a simple text file to store all menu information in a > > format that doesn't require any specific parsers to be installed. > > Some argue and see

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 07:50:26AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi All, > > I suggest a simple text file to store all menu information in a format > that doesn't require any specific parsers to be installed. Some argue > and seem to have a point, XML is not that readable for many users and > mor

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-04 Thread aitor_czr
Hi Steve, On 08/04/2016 11:32 PM, Jaromil wrote: Hi all, > >If I were making a general purpose menu program that might eventually >end up in Devuan, would you hate me if I made it depend on MongoDB? >Same question, but for YAML? Same question, for both? 1st of all, strange enough but a easy GU

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-04 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi All, I suggest a simple text file to store all menu information in a format that doesn't require any specific parsers to be installed. Some argue and seem to have a point, XML is not that readable for many users and more often than not a tool is required to edit complex files. My suggestion is

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 04.08.2016 16:16, KatolaZ wrote: > The format of menu files adopted in WindowMaker is *exactly* what I > mean by easy-to-modify, and I don't see why one would need anything > more complicated than that. After all, a menu is just a tree-like > structure, and each element basically has three/four

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-04 Thread Jaromil
On Thu, 04 Aug 2016, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > If I were making a general purpose menu program that might eventually > end up in Devuan, would you hate me if I made it depend on MongoDB? > Same question, but for YAML? Same question, for both? 1st of all, strange enough but a easy GUI menu

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-04 Thread Micky Del Favero
Steve Litt writes: > If I were making a general purpose menu program that might eventually > end up in Devuan, would you hate me if I made it depend on MongoDB? A menu program for what? If you want to make a menu program for X follow the old (and right) way to use a textual rc file in user's ho

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 03:16:49PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 10:05:33AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > If I were making a general purpose menu program that might eventually > > end up in Devuan, would you hate me if I made it depend on MongoDB? > > Same question

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-04 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 10:05:33AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > If I were making a general purpose menu program that might eventually > end up in Devuan, would you hate me if I made it depend on MongoDB? > Same question, but for YAML? Same question, for both? > My personal preference

[DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, If I were making a general purpose menu program that might eventually end up in Devuan, would you hate me if I made it depend on MongoDB? Same question, but for YAML? Same question, for both? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooti