21 Oct
2003
21 Oct
'03
5:04 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:50:38PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
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?
--
Notice that as computers are becoming easier and easier to use,
suddenly there's a big market for "Dummies" books. Cause and effect,
or merely an ironic juxtaposition of unrelated facts?
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.