On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 09:43 PM, Martin Costabel 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. What's wrong with a text editor for XML editing? It's pretty simple and obvious, no less so than the current info files IMO. And there was never really any reason for switching to rpm anyway (even if we did, it would be unrelated to the fink package format because the engine could always convert them). -- Finlay _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
