On Sat, 12 May 2007 14:14:39 +0200 Philippe Laquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > > > XML could be an altertative to order packages, it can be parsed with > some limited dependencies like PERL. The userland tools to manage > packages could be based on that language? It is well known by many > users, quite simple, required by many other packages so the whole system > won't be much heavier. PERL XML Parser can't be a good choice? > > * PERL-DB for managing packages databases > * PERL-XML for parsing categories, dependencies ... > > PERL also give , in most cases, good performance issues. >
I agree, that there's a lot of ready tools for parsing xml, but why not use much simple language that can be parsed by sed or awk in few lines? Will not require dependecies at all and much simplier (read better). The entire FreeBSD's ideology is to be as simple as possible but powerful. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE
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