On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 09:00:34PM +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote: > I can understand there may be benefits of a parsable format but I don't > directly see enough gain. On the other hand there seems to be a lot of > (perceived) cost involved (maintainer work).
Implicit in your email is the idea that the copyright proposal is complicated. Files: * Licence: BSD I can imagine that being valid syntax for the final format. Hardly a chore! > This means that if you want to introduce a new format you have to > convince the maintainer of a package that there is some benefit, be it > in tools that make their life easier or some concrete benefit for our > users. Agreed. Clearly, given the successful uptake of the proposal given it's draft nature, people are already seeing value. Perhaps like me, one of those values is having a consistent way of laying out the file, without having to worry about inventing your own consistent formatting style. Maybe that's just my mild OCD speaking though. Heh. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
