On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 12:53:52 +0200, Reinier Lamers wrote: > But the contents of files in the repo are not text, they are bytes (also for > text files, which are managed at lines of bytes delimited by a newline). How > should we deal with that in XML? > > A quick Google search turns up the suggestion to either use base64 or store > the binary data outside the XML and make the XML refer to it. Both of those > seem really bad for readability.
Trent posted an IRC conversation to http://bugs.darcs.net/issue33 which says to base64 encode them. Now on a side note, every time somebody mentions XML, I keep thinking of issue64 and worrying about http://bugs.darcs.net/issue64 That's metadata, and not file contents, but it seems relevant because we also print metadata in XML. Optimistically speaking, if we get the hashed-storage, filecache and gzcrcs stuff done (or done enough), then by the next hacking sprint we'll have some energy to focus on this. I've updated the http://wiki.darcs.net/Roadmap accordingly, putting this down for Darcs 2.4. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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