[bzrweb PATCH] look up repository descriptions in a config file

[Lalo Martins]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 20:52 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> Some people have suggested that we should store a DOAP-like_ XML
> description of a project in a tree; keeping it in XML might make it
> easier for other tools to parse.  On the other hand I think one reason
> why DOAP has not been taken up is that it's hard to read and write by
> hand, so something simpler might be good.

> So perhaps just
> 
> <treedescription>
>   <title>bazaar-ng</title>
>   <shortdescription>...</shortdescription>
>   <author>..</author>
> </treedescription>
> 
> It's easy to recurse off into XML schema madness though; keeping it
> simple is definitely good.

I passionately hate the (ab)use of XML for human-computer interaction.
XML was designed for computer-computer and it's the only thing it's good
for.  (But then it's *very* good.)  Let's not go the crackpot way of
ZCML_ :-)

.. _ZCML:
http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/Zope3Book/zcml.html

For parseability, I'd stick to configparser, which is much more
human-friendly.  Also, configparser allows both ini format (foo=bar) and
rfc822 format (foo: bar) interchangeably.

We can probably even whip up a command that dumps the right DOAP dope
from this...

best,
                                               Lalo Martins
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