On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Dimitri Fontaine
<dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr> wrote:
> "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
>> Sure. The reason to do it, though, is so that extension authors can create
>> just one metadata file, instead of two (or three, if one must also put such
>> data into the Makefile).
>
> That's a good idea, but my guess is that the implementation cost of
> supporting the control format in your perl infrastructure is at least an
> order of magnitude lower than the cost for me to support your current
> JSON file format, so I lean towards you having an automated way to fill
> in the json file from the control one...
Ah, truth to power. :-)
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