At 17:59 Uhr -0800 20.01.2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: >On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 13:43, Martin Costabel wrote: > >> 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 > >Disclamer: I know that no one really wants to move to rpm, and I'm not >trying to convince any one that they should. That probably makes this >off topic, but... > >What makes rpm more complex than fink's .info? They're mostly the same >format now.
Hu? I can't see much similarities between the two, quite frankly. How did you get that notion, I am sure you can rectify it somehow? > rpm is more advanced, and more flexible, but that only >makes a spec file more complicated than an info file if you choose to >use them (which most people do, because it's "the right thing". Well, I think comparing the .info for SDL with the SPEC says it all. 13 lines vs 92. And then ask a newbie to write an .info, and a .spec file, and see who succeeds. 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
