Re: discussion of createrepo and repodata format future
Daniel Veillard <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:57:52 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:53:48AM -0400, James Antill wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 14:55 +0200, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> > 2. providing a universally understood format ("XML's design goals
> > emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the Internet"
> > (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML)
>
> XML is no more "universal" than sqlite, or a few other formats.
Well I guess most of the IT industry would disagree with you
on that statement, but having a diverging opinion is fine, just a
bad argument in general.
Daniel
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