RE: OT : Universal Packaging

[Joris Lambrecht <jlambrec@landis.be>]

Thanks

-]-----Original Message-----
-]From: Hugo Haas [mailto:hugo@debian.org]
-]Sent: vrijdag 23 maart 2001 22:01
-]To: Joris Lambrecht
-]Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
-]Subject: Re: OT : Universal Packaging
-]
-]
-]* Joris Lambrecht <jlambrec@landis.be> [2001-03-23 17:41+0100]
-]> Now i wonder if future packages would be created using XML and thus
-]> distributed, the packages would be parsed/processed by some 
-]tool at the
-]> client side wich in turn would convert it to any required 
-]package format
-]> necessary or even simply interpret this for an existing 
-]package manager.
-]>  
-]> Would this be feasable or does there allready exist such a project ?
-]
-]Daniel Veillard was working on this[1]; I am not sure what the status
-]of his work is.
-]
-]XML Packaging is discussed in the www-xml-packaging[2] mailing list,
-]archived at [3].
-]
-]  1. 
-]http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-packaging/2000Jul/
0008.html
  2. mailto:www-xml-packaging@w3.org
  3. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-xml-packaging/
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