matthiasblaesing commented on pull request #3658: URL: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/3658#issuecomment-1049505647
> > I'm not sure what we gain from splitting this into multiple file instead of using real property files with comments. > > properties need parsing, a text file needs only simple tokenizing which should simplify usage outside of java programs. - ASF requires copyright headers, so parsers would at least be able to skip comments list (which in turn raises the question how the comment format should look like) - There might be the need to add further information. We have seen that at different places in the codebase. If the binaries-list format (the list of external binary files) would have been a structured format it would be less of a hack to parse it and we'd not guess that the target is a maven reference and/or we could trivially add a different checksum. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
