On 05/09/12 23:30, Roland Olbricht wrote: > > I think you miss the point. The argumentation "Don't continue an > established toolchain when a fancy new one exists" is exactly what > killed the Gnome project. Look for Linus Torwalds' reply in > > https://plus.google.com/115250422803614415116/posts/hMT5kW8LKJk > > The money quote is: > > > > "One of the core kernel rules has always been that we never ever break any > > external interfaces." > > > > Transferred to our situation this means: we shall carry on the XML > format forever because there are already a plenty of tools that rely > on the XML format and they are worth protection, and because this is a > clear signal to developers that we are a reliable partner. > > > I am a big fan of this principle to not break interfaces. However, applied to planet files, I don't think it means we have to continue to support two file formats for eternity. It That's also not what the kernel does. I think the approach is: thing gets switched, but a wrapper function providing the old interfaces goes in place of the "old" interface. Applied to planet diffs, that would be a "pbfcat" (meaning pbf file to xml) utility in my opinion. Pbf files are smaller to download, so a conversion afterwards would make sense, right?
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