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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gitpacker progress report and a question
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:30:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121127073033.GB23169@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3=VpMv-S2eV9rXRaH9U3SvaR8B6Dto=vAmVQ_XB1uBXg@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>:
> > The main objective of the logfile design is to make hand-crafting
> > these easy.
> 
> Here's another version with YAML:

Clever.  

Now I have to decide if I should allow my aesthetic dislike of YAML to
prevail despite the fact that it's pretty well suited to this job.  There
is definitely a case for applying a standard metaprotocol like YAML (ugh)
or XML (double ugh).
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-27  7:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-15 21:28 gitpacker progress report and a question Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-15 22:35 ` Max Horn
2012-11-15 23:05   ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-16 13:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-11-26 20:07 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-26 22:01   ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-26 23:14     ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-26 23:43       ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-27  1:29         ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27  1:38           ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27  6:29         ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27  7:27           ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-27  8:20             ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27  8:36               ` Eric S. Raymond
2012-11-27  8:51                 ` Felipe Contreras
2012-11-27  7:30           ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]

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