Re: gEDA-user: Re: Flame about XML

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On this I absolutely agree. Requirements then solution not the other way
around.

Thanks,

Steve M.


On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 15:35 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > I am not saying it is broke I am saying it lacks capabilities that I
> > need (and by comments on why geda isn't used more in universities i
> > suspect I am not alone). Now that isn't a reason to rewrite the code
> > to support xml files. But the other expression is why re-invent the
> > wheel.  If some file format or other does the job and has the
> > parsers....
> 
> The effort here isn't in the file format, it's in teaching gEDA to
> work with the information structure it's given.  For example, pcb has
> two file formats it uses - boards, and menus.  We could easily use the
> menu's format (we call that "the resource format") to hold board
> information (it's heirarchical and expandable) but pcb still doesn't
> know about anything other than what it's looking for.
> 
> What we need from you folks, the users, is a description of what
> functionality you need and why, so that we can find the best way to
> get there.  Telling us "you need XML" doesn't help, we can write a
> converter to XML and "have XML" without solving your problem.
> 
> 
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