8 Nov
2009
8 Nov
'09
6:44 p.m.
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, David Robillard wrote:
pretty good idea. All that is needed as far as
maintenance goes is for
hosts to supply a simple turtle document that says "I implement foo and
bar and baz extensions". The rest can be compiled into whatever fancy
human readable form you want, for every single plugin out there, by a
I would vote for XML for this, to better utilize all the parsers,
transformers, and presentation mechanisms already written and in place.
This isn't anti-turtle FUD, either. Turtle looks like it was a good
choice for the interface definitions.
tool. If I provide a template, would anyone be
willing to put together
these documents? I will gladly write the tool if the data is there, and
the problem will be solved, and a convention set that solves it in the
future with basically no effort involved.
I would.
-gabriel