On Sun, Dec 22, 2019, 10:11 PM Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/22/2019 7:36 PM, David Griffith wrote: > > > > Why does the FreeDOS project use version 3 LSM rather than version 4? > > > Because there isn't much of a practical difference between the two > "versions", beside v4 "expects" the data to be in ISO 8601 format, in > v3, it doesn't matter AFAIK... > Yep, and so we haven't needed to update the LSM format. It still meets our needs. Waaaaay back when I wrote the installer, I wanted a way to preserve package metadata. And I wanted it to be simple for people to write the metadata, and simple to parse. I looked around and found the LSM format from Linux fit what I was looking for, and that's how we came to use the LSM format. And we haven't needed to change it, or we would have done that.
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