Thats just plain retarded. Extra dependencies on something that is clearly not needed is pointless. Especcially since xml doesn't give us any extended benefit over parsing a simple plain text configuration file. Now XML manpages are another story because they make it significantly easier to maintain.
Dan On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:59:08AM +0200, Wolfram A. Kraushaar wrote: > > You make it seems like using getopt_long has difficulty in > > which it really has none. > > >From the description in the man page popt seems to offer some > additional functionality over getopt and getopt_long, so I just > thought you might consider using it in a future version. > > I just had another "weird" idea for a future release: > "xmlifying" the dbmail.conf, and parsing it with expat/libxml2 > so there's no need to maintain a handwritten parser with all > the hassle around it. This would also be a benefit for > third-party applications/scripts written in php and perl, as > it's way more easy to utilize the xml-parser libraries > of those languages than writing a parser for the dbmail.conf > file in the current style. > > If anyone's interested I'd give it a go in some spare time... > > -- > Wolfram > > _______________________________________________ > Dbmail-dev mailing list > Dbmail-dev@dbmail.org > http://twister.fastxs.net/mailman/listinfo/dbmail-dev
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