On Saturday, January 19, 2002, at 05:22 , Max Horn wrote:
> At 1:30 Uhr -0800 19.01.2002, Daniel Parks wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> On Friday, January 18, 2002, at 07:06 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: >> >>> <package name="foo" version="1.0.1" revision="2"> >> >> Why name="foo", etc, but no maintainer="John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"? > > Well, as you realize, this was more a proof-of-concept implementation, > to show that it can be done easily. > > Personally I think (see my other maiL) that the maintainer field should > be split. I also don't think it should be an attribute to the package > element. Name, version and revision are direct (required) properties of > every package; maintainer is not (well, it is required, but not a > direct proprty of the package; it merely contains information, but is > not esssential for the build/install process, nor for dpkg). > > >>> <depends>bar, x11</depends> >> >> That comma syntax seems a bit un-XML. > > Yup, should be a list of <depends> elements instead. But again to > defend Kyle, I think this was meant as a proof of concept only :) > Yes, basically I just wrote it to first pull the name, version, and revision out of the package tag, then treat all other tags like this: take the tag name and value, and stick it in the same hash style that fink uses. For the comma syntax, that is what fink reads from the hash, so that is what I put in the hash, though it is ugly xml :-) > >> >>> <maintainer><![CDATA[John Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]]></maintainer> >> >> Ugh. Time to learn XML "for real." > > Huh, what? I don't like doing it like that, but I's perfectly legal. > The < and > appearing in the data have to be marked as CDATA. otherwise > the file would be invalid XML. An alternative would be to translate > them to > and < but I think that would be a really bad idea. So I > think your remark is not very fitting. > In any case, for my opinion on this, see above/my other mail. > > > >> >>> </package> >>> >>> diffs will be posted on the feature request tracker shortly. >> >> I wanna subscribe to the trackers! Stupid SourceForge! :-( > > Sorry, fink-tracker is right now only available for fink team memebers. > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
