Re: xmlspec Update

[Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat com>]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:50:23PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 14:44, Peter Bowen wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 
> I don't know if I agree that it needs to stick around IN rpm.

Hmmm, I thought I put the parser in rpmbuild, not in rpm.
I'll have to check ...

> 
> it might be better to have a separate tool that reads spec files and
> pushes them into the new format.
> 
> that way it allows backwards compatibility but it forces you to move
> forward.

Great ideas!

(sorry for the tongue-in-cheeck :-)

73 de Jeff

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