Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Status of global and tree aliases

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Colin Walters <address@hidden>

    > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:05 -0700, Tom Lord wrote:

    > > Arch already has a few mistakes of the sort you are making now (all of
    > > which are my fault) including but not limited to:

    > >    ~ the format of =3Dtagging-method
    > >    ~ the format of ~/.arch-params/<almost-everything>
    > >    ~ the format of $archive/=3Dmeta-info/*
    > >    ~ the format of .arch-id/foo.id files
    > >    ~ the format of checksum files in archives
    > >    ~ the format of some of the log headers

    > > There's considerable overlap in the requirements, now and in the
    > > forseeable futrue, of all of those file formats.  Yet currently they
    > > have mutually incompatible syntaxes and semantics and every one of
    > > them is implemented by a separate bit of code.

    > Sure, but all of those formats have to be supported forever, since they
    > are in wide use now.  You can't get rid of any code by implementing a
    > new language.

However, you _can_ avoid adding new dead-end code like that and you
_can_ migrate from those as the default formats to newer formats which
are extensible and clean.

-t