--- Ahmed Masud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Joachim: > > > 1. Very important: Is your tool open-source? > > The tool was always internal, however I have no issue causing it to > be > released under an open source license say GPL or LGPL. > > :-) Owning the company has its perks. > > > > > 2. Less important: What exactely do you mean when you say "I'll > be > > more than happy to work with you guys to integrate SIB into the > > ALFS system and help the LFS community"? More specifically: How > do > > you see collaboration between both projects? > > > Well, I think there is no reason why you guys should have to go > through the effort that we've already gone through. My proposal is > that LFS consider SIB as possible starting point for ALFS, as it > is > quite mature and covers a good chunk of the goals that ALFS lists > in > its website. It's not complete by any means but it is definitely > something that every one can work with quite readily and actually > start playing within a couple of hours. > > We may have to make the documentation worthy of wider distribution > :-) > because internally it's just taught through apprenticeship. > > > 3. Can you give us more details on the XML-part? We were planning > > to move away from XML actually, because our syntax is quite > bloated > > and makes profiles hard to maintain. > > > I have put the XMLs for building an LFS environment at > > http://www.googgun.com/SIB/ I'm not a LFS expert nor a developer of it, but those profiles *seems* much more complicated then nALFS's to me. > > If my recollection is correct this is against version 5 of LFS. > This > is just to give everyone an idea. > > Please remember that this is NOT directly LFS books, however we can > easily write an xsl that converts books to SIB XML format. The SIB > XML, > I think, doesn't suffer from unnecessary bloat, and we've seen it > that > practically it is quite easy for a junior linux admin to > understand, > and build upon. > > The nifty thing about SIB XML spec is that it is very automation > friendly. It can easily be guieed or a sql'd. Of course some work > needs to happen here to actually get it done, however I think it > can > be a good starting point. > > > Apart from this, I'm very excited. I hope we'll be able to work > > together on this soon (well, if all of us find some time, that is > > :-)). > > > Well let me know what you think of the idea overall. > > Ahmed Masud > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFDksk6CfVC95K1mUYRAvc7AJ9KngEOIby5kT1mPY1VhinpLHIKnACfYAiZ > qrqZtHyC2+FakksPTgJSD1w= > =Y7lL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > Author: Ali Servet Donmez E. Mail: wnstox {} yahoo.com If you have trouble reading some characters, please switch between ISO and Unicode character encodings. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
