Re: xmlspec Update

[Peter Bowen <pzb datastacks com>]

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 14:19, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> 
> Poorly designed or not, the existing spec file parser will have to be
> retained for quite awhile, probably forever. That does not have to stop
> development of a new and better (and alternative) XML parser.

While the current spec file parser needs to stay around, would it be
possible to tighten up the spec file syntax a little in RPM 4.1?  One of
the things that makes spec file parsing hardest appears to be the fact
that %files, %prep, and other "keywords" can be redefined.  Maybe in 4.1
there can be a list of reserved words that can't be defined.

I think that this would significantly clean up spec file parsing, and
make specfiles a little more readable.

Thanks.
Peter