>>>>> "El" == El JoPe Magnifico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
El> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Max Horn wrote: >> ...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. El> Here's one more: YAML. Details at www.yaml.org. Easier to eyeball than El> XML, and the author even does all his hacking on it in OS X, which adds El> just a touch of pixie dust to any project. =) Seriously though, it fits El> the needs here better than XML, which is kinda overkill. YAML is very data-centric (fine for machine-to-machine communication, but a bit awkward for human to machine or even human to human), however, and indent sensitive (think "python"). I'd vote against moving from RFC822-header-style info files (at present) to YAML. Ugh. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
