On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 11:33 +0100, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: > > > While MAINTAINERS is good, there would be more data usable for more > > things (Olav already gave some examples). So just saying "no, it looks > > like horrible bloat" is not really convincing. > > If the file you shall maintain looks like a large binary blob, and the > file Olav linked looked like that, this is a valid argument. I > absolutely do not want to edit unreadable, nearly binary looking XML > files.
is this "binary looking"? <Project xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"; xmlns="http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#";> <name>Clutter</name> <shortname>clutter</shortname> <created>2006-11-18</created> <shortdesc xml:lang="en"> Clutter is an OpenGL based interface library </shortdesc> <!-- long description --> <description xml:lang="en">...</description> <homepage rdf:resource="http://www.clutter-project.org"; /> <download-page rdf:resource="http://www.clutter-project.org/sources"; /> <license rdf:resource="http://usefulinc.com/doap/licenses/lgpl"; /> <bug-database rdf:resource="http://bugzilla.o-hand.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Clutter"/> <mailing-list rdf:resource="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" /> <os>Linux</os> <programming-language>C</programming-language> <repository> <SVNRepository> <browse rdf:resource="http://svn.o-hand.com/view/clutter"/> <location rdf:resource="https://svn.o-hand.com/repos/clutter"/> </SVNRepository> </repository> </Project> if I'd say something about DOAP is that sometimes is overly verbose; but it's quite descriptive and easy to parse/write, even by humans. most of this data is not even meant to be changed often: the only sections that changes regularly is the releases one - and that would be automagically updated by the install-module script if I understood Olav's mail correctly. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
