[gfsd]Re: gas/binutils (a.k.a. we really suck sometimes)

[Hugo Gayosso]

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"Bradley M. Kuhn" <address@hidden> writes:

> If I were designing the Free Software Directory from scratch, I
> would choose XML.  However, we already have a well-defined format,
> that is easy to parse.
> 
> As long as the format stays well-defined, we can switch to XML
> whenever we want, by writing a program to reformat the files.  That
> isn't too much work.
> 
> However, it's a lot of work to retrain people who already know how
> to edit the existing format.  And, XML formats can be confusing to
> non-hackers.
> 
> So, I suggest we don't bother to switch, and if people need the
> files in an XML, we can always write a program to convert the
> existing format to an XML format.
> 
> The important challenges I see right now for the Free Software
> Directory is writing more entries, and writing a better
> HTML-rendering of the directory.  I encourage people to work on that
> first, rather than an XML based-format.


I agree.

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Hugo Gayosso
GNU Volunteer Coordinator
http://www.gnu.org
http://hgayosso.linuxave.net
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