On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Michael McCandless
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Can we stop trying to document the file format?
>
> Is it really needed?  It has been an error-proned process over time...
>
> Can't the source code be the definitive resource one reads to
> determine how a codec stores stuff....?

I think it should be optional, not mandatory.

If someone wants to write up and maintain file format descriptions,
thats a great contribution to the project.
Otherwise, it doesn't happen.

I also think that it shouldnt be forrested on some versioned website
(which means you "automatically" get a copy of the previous version,
just asking for outdated docs). It would be better to have this as a
single-document on the wiki: better to be incomplete and not have all
versions than to be wrong.

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