Re: new package format
Adrian Perez <adrianperez.deb@gmail.com> writes:
> This may not be relevant in here, but I felt the need to ask.
> There's any plan of supporting another format - without breaking
> compatibility, I mean supporting - besides the RFC one?
There isn't any plan that I'm aware of.
> I think YAML would be a good one.
What would be the gain? I can think of one point at least, namely more
standard libraries for parsing the format, but parsing the current format
isn't particularly difficult and that doesn't seem to be worth the work to
support more formats. Are there other advantages?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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