On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 11:51:38AM +0800, David Godfrey wrote: Argh... HTML only mail:P
> THEY ARE EVIL EVIL THINGS !!<br> > <ul> Snips for all the <li> items. Single response for all the questions. Answer: ISO ASN.1 Gives all you said it needs to do, correctly. Has a 'generic' parser (depending on the encoding). Handles back and forward versioning. Mostly self documenting (and there is a formal documentation method). No vendor lock-in (heck, is one of the few ISO standards you can get free of charge!). Reasonably easy to use (depending on your compiler package). Drives airplanes and stuff in orbit :D also more of an internet standard than many would think (X509 certificates for a start...) AFAIK protobufs are a (way) 'lighter' version of this... I see no reason for them being invented in the first place (aside for 'google domination') After this I'm *not* advocating a binary format, there would be no advantage for it in pcbnew. There are no performance restraints in either speed or space for kicad files so just use whatever is easier for you to manage (i.e. structured text) -- Lorenzo Marcantonio CZ Srl - Parma _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp