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Date: | Fri, 25 Dec 2015 17:48:52 +0100 |
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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] A fileformat library |
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> > I think that having a file format that enables simple means to > > achieve simple (but specialized) ends is essential to a good > > toolkit. > > Any SQL implementation refutes that. Nobody touches the SQL data file > itself, they all go through a SQL interpreter that accesses the data > on their behalf. Specialized ends are implemented on top of this > interpreter. > > Granted, this means we'd need a well-defined way to do pretty much > anything through whatever means we provide, but saying "access to the > file is required" is just plain wrong. "Access to the data" is a more > appropriate requirement, but making the data file tweakable is a weak > solution to that - no controls, no validation, etc. A good start would b e to factor out the specialized ends.
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