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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Jul 2004 20:09:18 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Colin Walters <address@hidden>
> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:05 -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> > Arch already has a few mistakes of the sort you are making now (all of
> > which are my fault) including but not limited to:
> > ~ the format of =3Dtagging-method
> > ~ the format of ~/.arch-params/<almost-everything>
> > ~ the format of $archive/=3Dmeta-info/*
> > ~ the format of .arch-id/foo.id files
> > ~ the format of checksum files in archives
> > ~ the format of some of the log headers
> > There's considerable overlap in the requirements, now and in the
> > forseeable futrue, of all of those file formats. Yet currently they
> > have mutually incompatible syntaxes and semantics and every one of
> > them is implemented by a separate bit of code.
> Sure, but all of those formats have to be supported forever, since they
> are in wide use now. You can't get rid of any code by implementing a
> new language.
However, you _can_ avoid adding new dead-end code like that and you
_can_ migrate from those as the default formats to newer formats which
are extensible and clean.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, James Blackwell, 2004/07/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/07/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Colin Walters, 2004/07/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/07/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, James Blackwell, 2004/07/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/07/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/07/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Andrew Suffield, 2004/07/22
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/07/23
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Colin Walters, 2004/07/20
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases,
Tom Lord <=
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases, Phil Frost, 2004/07/20