At 20:53 Uhr -0500 16.01.2002, Kyle Moffett wrote: >I am also going to be looking at writing some beta code for XML info >files, since that would really make many features much easier to >implement, as well as making the packaging policy more strict. If >we wrote a .dtd, we could enforce that the package have a license >field, even if one of the values available is 'Unknown'.
Actually, enforcing a field or certain values for a field isn't the issue. There is already the "fink check" command, which does some limited validation (limited mainly because I never got around on finishing it, nor did anybody else). > Another thing we can do, though this kind of conflicts with the >packaging policy, is to enable the placing of multiple variants into >an info file. ...as has been discussed several times in the past, yeah, and was one of the original reasons we started talking about switching to a different package format in the future, with XML being one possibility. > The #DEFAULT# variant would be the one compiled into the bindist. >Then stuff like blah-ssl, blah-nox, and blah-macosx, could be put >into the same file. New logic for sorting out dependancies would be >needed, but this is sort of a long term goal. Exactly. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
