-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grobian wrote: > Danny van Dyk wrote: > >> IMHO a text based file has a big advantage in this proposed application >> over fileformats which use XML: Any administrator can read it with his >> editor of choice, right from the console. > > > This is an important aspect for sure, but why can't such file be > generated from a marked up one? Because the same message will be put in > multiple forms (ideally) it is best to have a version with all the > required meta-data to generate all the other formats, because if you > have to add such meta-data it's usually much worse (= manual or > conditional human work). > > Some people like reading console messages, others plain text mail > messages, others want html marked up mail messages, other others like > reading an rss-feed, and of course there are people that like to read > the full fledged funky marked up with all hyperlinks possible html > version on the web. > I think the only real importance is that all representations can easily > be generated from the original source, be that XML, reStructuredText or > any other format. > > With regard to being it hard to write or not, I think these kind of > messages are very well suited for templates, so it is just a matter of > filling in the message, which should make the underlying format not so > important. > > Just my €0.02 on the XML vs. plain text discussion. > >
A very good point. You could even offer a web form for those who don't even want to edit the template by hand. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDa5YF2QTTR4CNEQARAly+AKCjnT+yONZPAmTO+cccByWeQcaVsQCfQ4Vb K8Cwc/QQNKxAe/Q0VknIOiU= =2Dow -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
