From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Bug File Format Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:04:04 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <87pu1t2szv.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87g02pn89q.fsf@tyrell.bad-people-of-the-future.san-francisco.ca.us> <877ko1rdc7.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1017029230 25968 127.0.0.1 (25 Mar 2002 04:07:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 04:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Evan Prodromou , guile-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16pLlG-0006kj-00 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 05:07:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16pLkz-0004wA-00; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:06:53 -0500 Original-Received: from dsl-209-87-109-2.constant.com ([209.87.109.2] helo=defaultvalue.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16pLiH-0004js-00 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 23:04:05 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE42743B4; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:04:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A33D9C98; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:04:04 -0600 (CST) Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <877ko1rdc7.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> (Marius Vollmer's message of "24 Mar 2002 20:10:48 +0100") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:187 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:187 Marius Vollmer writes: > Yes, I thought about this, too. But s-expression just feel > unnatural for non-nested data that is mostly straight text. I think > that most information about a bug is in the body of the 'message', > and having to write this as a Scheme string will be annoying. I agree -- this seems like a good idea at first glance, but unless we have some good wrapping algorithms, and some fancy emacs macros, typing the main body information associated with a bug seems like it might be a PITA. It'll also be hard to easily append emails/patches, etc., since they'd all need to be properly quoted. I suppose we might be able to get by with sexps for the header fields, but I don't feel strongly about this either way. However, I do feel like if we find ourselves trying to define anything very complex at all wrt quoting/escaping, etc., then we need to revisit this issue more seriously. As you point out, as far as parsers go, "We've already got one." -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org Previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG=1C58 8B2C FB5E 3F64 EA5C 64AE 78FE E5FE F0CB A0AD _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel