11 Mar
2005
11 Mar
'05
6:14 p.m.
On Fri, 11 Mar, 2005 at 08:50PM +0100, Christoph Eckert spake thus:
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
. 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.
Best regards
ce
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That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you."
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