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Re: A new method of storing package data base information, proposing packages, and announcing updates


On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 02:17:45PM -0500, Daniel Reed wrote:
>Currently, only my tools use the XML format. All of the utilities that deal
>with setup.ini, including the most important utility--setup.exe itself--only
>use the structured-text format found in current setup.hint files. The
>proposal was to extend the setup.hint format using structured comments so
>the existing setup-related utilities (including setup.exe itself) could
>remain as they are.

Which is a good goal.

I don't think we want to gate this innovation on making major changes to
upset and setup.exe, although, for upset, I'm sure I could dig up some
XML parser which would work.

cgf


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