[Freeciv-Dev] Re: do you really want to work on the ~ (was: registry)

[Jules Bean <jules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 20:52, Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:30:15PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> > Writing your own parser is error-prone
> 
> Not with flex+bison.

Different kind of error.  You can still make logical errors even using
flex+bison. (You can still make logical errors using libxml, of course;
I was just suggesting it's easier with a library).

> 
> > Alternatively, there may be standardised forms of the above. Doesn't
> > the stuff libproplist uses look a bit like that?
> 
> I couldn't find an online docu in the first 30 matches of google. This
> doesn't speak for the library.

Neither could I, or I would have posted the link ;-)

In any case, I'm not a freeciv developer, so it's not my decision :)

Jules