New repository configuration ponderings

Gary L. Greene Jr. greeneg at phoenuxos.com
Sun May 28 10:16:11 PDT 2006


On Sunday 28 May 2006 01:13 pm, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 18:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > ... wouldn't an xml config file format be more suitable?
>
> As long as those files need to be often directly edited by humans using
> common plain text editors, I don't think XML is an optimal format.
>
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Besides, mucking with xml means that a new xml parser would need written for 
it, etc, which is what Panu wanted to avoid according to the post that asked 
about this.



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