On Fri, 11 Mar, 2005 at 08:50PM +0100, Christoph Eckert spake thus:
>
> > . the spec will stay as is, unchangable but free to use as
> > is
> > . new management may one day decide to close down the
> > openness
> > . new management may one day decide to completely
> > open source it
>
> yep, just my thoughts.
>
> I always wondered that sampling isn't more spread in the linux
> world.
>
> What about packing some flacs and some XML spec data into one
> 7zip file in a well defined arrangement and use this as a new
> file format?
>
> OK, it needs lots of knowledge to define the needed elements
> of the XML file and to create a really good file format, but
> IMHO this is something really needed.
Why not start it then? Even if you're not a coder, you can start
drafting the requirements and a human level specification. Forget
XML, packing and whatknot and just describe, hierarchically or
otherwise, what the file should contain.
Even if you are a coder, don't always jump for XML. While it's
certainly human readable, it's often about as easy to read as a
postscript file (also human readable).
Anyway, my suggestion is: get the ball rolling. Once it's specced,
all that's needed is a library for processing the file and it would be
a fairly simple job to make things like fluid work with the new
format.
James
>
> Best regards
>
>
> ce
>
-- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)Received on Sat Mar 12 04:15:05 2005
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