Re: [cellml-discussion] Survey on opinions for the backwards compatibility levels for future CellML Specs

2008-01-10 Thread James Lawson
Good points. Re: Peter's mention of the European groups taking up CellML as per their funding commitments, and his comment that 2008 promises to be a very busy year indeed for us, I think we can hedge our bets on the latter. Kind regards, James Randall Britten wrote: Hi all I think the

Re: [cellml-discussion] Survey on opinions for the backwards compatibility levels for future CellML Specs

2008-01-09 Thread Poul Nielsen
On 2008 Jan 09, at 14:49, Andrew Miller wrote: Poul Nielsen wrote: I think that the best policy is to evolve CellML toward a clean and simple specification. I don't think that this means that we require a complete break with previous specifications at each major iteration if, for example,

Re: [cellml-discussion] Survey on opinions for the backwards compatibility levels for future CellML Specs

2008-01-09 Thread Randall Britten
Hi all I think the policy depends on the answer to these two questions: 1) In terms of how widely CellML has been adopted worldwide, how does the current status compare to what we expect in say 6 months, and say a year from now? 2) How successful have we been in terms of achieving the vision

Re: [cellml-discussion] Survey on opinions for the backwards compatibility levels for future CellML Specs

2008-01-08 Thread Poul Nielsen
I think that the best policy is to evolve CellML toward a clean and simple specification. I don't think that this means that we require a complete break with previous specifications at each major iteration if, for example, we use deprecated/obsolescent flags. I believe that it is

Re: [cellml-discussion] Survey on opinions for the backwards compatibility levels for future CellML Specs

2008-01-08 Thread Andrew Miller
Poul Nielsen wrote: I think that the best policy is to evolve CellML toward a clean and simple specification. I don't think that this means that we require a complete break with previous specifications at each major iteration if, for example, we use deprecated/obsolescent flags. I

Re: [cellml-discussion] Survey on opinions for the backwards compatibility levels for future CellML Specs

2008-01-08 Thread James Lawson
Andrew Miller wrote: Hi all, Hi, thanks for providing a nice intro to this issue Andrew. There have recently been some discussions of changes which would drastically break forwards or backwards compatibility of CellML (for example, changing the way that connections work). I think that it