Bapt <b...@freebsd.org> writes: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 02:09:59PM +0200, Julien Laffaye wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Ivan Voras <ivo...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > > 2. XML is a bad idea. Great in theory, wonderful in my browser, but a >> > > bloated plaintext file with a lot of complexity. I would prefer a >> > > database solution that could be dumped to a simple text file format if >> > > needed. >> > >> > XML, at least in my proposal, would not be used for the system package >> > database, but would replace (either in part or all with a single file) >> > today's "+" files in the packages, together with other purposes where >> > some metadata transfer is required. >> > >> > That said, I would also be happy with other self-described formats >> > like JSON. XML is the front runner because it's more standard >> > (industry standard, whether someone likes this fact or not!) and there >> > is already a parser in base. >> > >> >> The pro of XML here is that we have a parser in base, The con is its >> verbosity. But anyway the manifest is not meant to be human readable. >> Nevertheless, I prefer JSON, because it's less complex than XML and we can >> have a parser/emiter in a single 500SLOC .c file. >> And it looks sexier than XML, eh : http://pastebin.com/8hzPSSJC > > > +1 for JSON, XML would have been interesting if we add a validating parser in > base which would have help us to verify the package integrity, but expat > isn't a > good validating parser. writting a json parser/emiter is easy, and there > already > exists tons of BSDL friendly license JSON parser. For exemple we could import > yajl (BSDL) into base or use cJSON (MIT) which consist in one simple C + > header > file
We can as well use Lua tables to store package database. Their syntax is close to JSON. Besides, I think it's better to divorce ports from base so that pkg_* tools can evolve faster and are not limited to dependencies from base. The only thing we'd need to leave in base is smth like pkg_bootstrap. IMO, this chicken and egg problem is getting quite annoying. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
