Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Tom Lord]

    > From: address@hidden (James Blackwell)

    > Aaron Bentley wrote:
    > > I mention this because I'm contemplating automating inventory 
    > > configuration in pyaba, and the notion of modifying the regexes is 
    > > rather daunting.  I can only imagine how much more difficult it would 
be 
    > > if instead of regexes, =tagging-method was written in a Real 
Programming 
    > > Language.

    > Is that what he means?!? 

    > I suspect that many of our users are intimidated by regexes, and
    > can barely handle *that*. What on earth are we going to do with the
    > political reprocussions of having to tell them that they'll have to
    > learn a new language just to configure an archive?

Well, there you go.  Another reason to make =tagging-method turing
complete: to create a flexible means of introducing higher-level 
abstractions (e.g. "GNU conventions with the following exceptions...")

-t