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

[Colin Walters]

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 =tagging-method
>    ~ the format of ~/.arch-params/<almost-everything>
>    ~ the format of $archive/=meta-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.

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