New FreeBSD package system (a.k.a. Daemon Package System (dps))

[Stanislav Sedov]

On Sat, 12 May 2007 14:14:39 +0200
Philippe Laquet <stom at free.fr> mentioned:
> >
> XML could be an altertative to order packages, it can be parsed with
> some limited dependencies like PERL. The userland tools to manage
> packages could be based on that language? It is well known by many
> users, quite simple, required by many other packages so the whole system
> won't be much heavier. PERL XML Parser can't be a good choice?
>
> * PERL-DB for managing packages databases
> * PERL-XML for parsing categories, dependencies ...
>
> PERL also give , in most cases, good performance issues.
>

I agree, that there's a lot of ready tools for parsing xml, but why
not use much simple language that can be parsed by sed or awk in few
lines? Will not require dependecies at all and much simplier (read
better). The entire FreeBSD's ideology is to be as simple as possible
but powerful.

--
Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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