[SVN] Bundle Repository

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Dec 3, 2006, at 6:24 AM, Sebastian Graessl wrote:

> the xml is not thought to be readable or accessible by other apps  
> just the GetBundle and the Repository.
> So XML is the easiest i think

If we are going to add descriptions to our bundles, I don't see at  
all why we would not want those readable by other apps as well, or at  
the very least readable by TM commands. If we use any property list  
format, then this can be read in one line in Ruby, and in fact the  
same line will read it whether it is old plist or xml plist or even  
binary plist.

I really see no reason why you would not want to use plists. You are  
asking us to write something in a format that is less easily  
processed and will be different than everything else used in TM, so I  
think you need to provide us with some very good justification for  
this, or use property lists instead.

If you really need things to appear in the particular form you  
outlined in your first email for your particular situation, then it  
would be better to instead have a script that does the conversion  
from one of the standard formats to yours. But I believe very  
strongly that if we are adding descriptions to bundles we should do  
it in a more versatile way than a custom xml file that serves only  
one particular application.

Haris