On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Martin Costabel wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 03:38, Max Horn wrote: > > > > * Move to a new package format - yes or no, and which. This has to be > > > carefully designed, I think. > > I vote NO. There are excellent reasons for staying with the present > format. IMHO one of the secrets of Fink's spectacular success is just > this extreme simplicity of the format of the info files. If you > complicate this, like with XML where you need special tools for editing, > or with rpm which is much more complex, you will loose many of the > package contributors. I don't mean you shouldn't add (carefully > selected) additional features, but please keep the simple human readable > and writable text format. >
I wholeheartedly concur with Martin here. Like they say, If it ain't broke ... -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/CDC R/CDC1 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 325 Broadway Web : www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
