Johannes Stezenbach writes: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:55:32PM +0200, Juha Yrj�l� wrote: > > > > Hmm. I do have ASN.1 DER encoding and decoding facilities in OpenSC, and > > they could easily be migrated to dvbsak. (If you're not familiar with > > ASN.1 and DER, see: http://borg.isc.ucsb.edu/aka/Auth/ASN1layman.htm .) > > It seems all the three options were equally liked. *sigh* =) I think > > I'll implement scconf format for now, and make it modular enough so the > > others can be added later. > > OK. > > I'm not in favour of any particular format, but I don't like > binary formats (including ASN.1), because they are difficult > to view and edit manually. My experience shows that this is quite > important. > > Second, if size and speed matters (think of set-top-boxes like > the dbox2), XML is the wrong format.
Not if you parse the xml yourself instead of using some bloated library. In the libdvb dircetory I implemented xml input for the output of Dave's channel scanner (sorry forget the name). > > If you are designing a tagged format, please consider keeping > that tag names short. Which is also in the libdvb. I am not trying to push libdvb, just pointing out that it has already been done. Marcus -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Dr. Marcus O.C. Metzler | | |--------------------------------|-----------------------------------| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.metzlerbros.de/ | \--------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
