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Re: gitpacker progress report and a question

From
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Date
Nov 27, 2012, 07:30 UTC
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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).

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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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  6. Eric S. RaymondNov 26, 2012
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