[Rpm-metadata] discussion of createrepo and repodata format future

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Fri Aug 6 14:57:52 UTC 2010


On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:53:48AM -0400, James Antill wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 14:55 +0200, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> > 2. providing a universally understood format ("XML's design goals
> >    emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the Internet"
> >    (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML)
> 
>  XML is no more "universal" than sqlite, or a few other formats.

  Well I guess most of the IT industry would disagree with you
on that statement, but having a diverging opinion is fine, just a
bad argument in general.

Daniel

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