Bryan Kadzban wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 03:31:28PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I would like to see UTF-8 in LFS. > > I thought it was? Or at least, I thought LFS was UTF-8-ready. (I don't > think we want to enforce UTF-8 on everyone, though.) > >> I'm not sure I like using XML for building packages. I prefer reading >> scripts. However, I do see some benefits and I am not opposed to it. > > With a perfect setup, the XML could produce some scripts that you could > read. In fact, I bet this is what several of the *alfs projects do (or > did, or can do). ;-) > > Of course, hacking on the scripts and then trying to merge the results > back into the XML might be painful... > > I would rather see the scripts in a much simpler form. For display, XML probably could be generated with an 'asciidoc' filter, but such scripts don't need formatting anyway. I don't believe XML is intended to be hand written.
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