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)
