[pacman-dev] package PKGINFO format vs DB format

[Aaron Griffin]

On 9/19/07, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:49:12AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> >
> > And it died again it seems!
> >
> > This is a lot of work, and I'm trying to keep on top of these things....
> >
> > So here's the operative question to get the ball rolling.
> >
> > Which format do we like more?
> >
> > [
> >     foo = bar
> >     baz = blah
> > ]
> > vs
> > [
> >     %FOO%
> >     bar
> >
> >     %BAZ%
> >     blah
> > ]
> >
> > And try not to think about where/when bash and python and things like
> > that need this data - that's a non-issue as we can always write helper
> > utils using libalpm's parsing if it becomes really hard for things
> > like, say, namcap.
>
> Which files exactly are we talking about?
> What about "files" (no pun intended ;) in the local db?

Lemme see if I recall correctly. The second format is obviously our
current DB format. The first is the .PKGINFO file in the package
tarballs themselves.

I, also, like the first format better.

Here's on thing that wasn't brought up above - list parsing:

[
    list = one
    list = two
    list = three
]
vs
[
    %LIST%
    one
    two
    three
]