Re: a little (folish?) idea

[<andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

blacklist wrote @ Mon, 25 Oct 2004 04:02:47 +0200:

> Why not, once DragonFly will create its own ports-system, store the 
> port-files in XML? At least for the ports, this is quite reasonable.
> This could also be applied to the whole system configuration-file 
> concept, but I can figure not everyone would like to see a XML-parser
> included in the base system... :P

XML is neither very good for humans to process nor for computers.
YAML is better for humans, S-lang (lisp) is better for cumputers, e.g.
So even if there was a problem, XML would not be the solution
(unless your intention is to sell us software tools or hardware).

Andy