DPS Initial Ideas

[Benjamin Lutz]

On Sunday 13 May 2007 13:58, Thomas Sparrevohn wrote:
> Using XML for INDEX are a very good idea mainly because it allows
> "ports" to interface in an easy way to external tools - e.g. java
> frontends - web browsers etc, etc. However there are drawbacks - Yet
> I feel that the discussion about what tool to use as indexing are
> completely misplaced if the only point is that somebody likes SQL
> better than a  directory tree.

I'd have said that using XML for INDEX is a bad idea, because INDEX can 
then no longer be easily processed with any of the tools in the FreeBSD 
base system. With the format it uses now, I can easily grep, awk, etc 
it. If you need an XML version of INDEX, it's easy to have just these 
tools build one for you though.

Not to mention that INDEX is already big enough as it is, imo. I don't 
see why it should be bloated even more with redundant information.

Cheers
Benjamin
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