- Increasing the spread of Component Pascal & BlackBox

From: Treutwein Bernhard <"Treutwein>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:43:19 +0200

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> >I think it should be possible to store all ontents in a XML
> > format and write a converter/importer/exporter to store
> > the contents of odc (without any loss) in XML.
> >
> >
> If you say that we need a converter from .odc to XML and vice
> versa, I think this is a good idea.

this is exactly, what I wanted to suggest.

If we want to do any distributed development, we need
some versioning system and a central database. I do
not think it is good to reinvent wheels over and over
and I think that we should be able to keep the benefits
of the odc format. So XML is in my opinion a good
compromise for an exchange format, which can be read
by humans without the corresponding program (avoiding
the hen & egg problem if someone just wants to browse
a bit into sources).

> If you suggest to switch from .odc to XML
> permanently, I strongly disagree.
>

no, I do not think it is desirable to switch from
a compact format to a bloated one ...

regards

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	Bernhard Treutwein, IuK, Ref. III A 3
	Bernhard.Treutwein(at)verwaltung uni-muenchen de
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