Re: [linux-audio-dev] some more GMPI thoughts

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] some more GMPI thoughts
From: Tim Hockin (thockin_AT_hockin.org)
Date: Tue Oct 21 2003 - 21:47:33 EEST


On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:50:38PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> > We're not designing solutions, just requirements, right now. It's fine to
> > have a solution to a requirement, but remember that this is a bigger group.
> > I don't even know what YAML is. XML is a somewhat obvious answer for
> > portable data, but that may be beyond the scope of GMPI.
>
> It probably should be in the spec, or at least a recommended schema. There
> better be a good reason for it being anything other than XML.

The *spec* certainly. But requirements? The requirement seems to be "GMPI
should have a standard preset file format. That format must be flexible,
extensible, well-defined, hierarchical, and human-editable pure ASCII."

Does that cover it?

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