On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 08:42 -0400, Don Dailey wrote:
> GTP pretty much replace GMP.    A lot of resistance because GMP was the
> defacto standard at the time.   It would have been foolish to insist on
> being backwards compatible.

GTP was a huge change in protocol with clear benefits.  What's being
quibbled over now is minor change in the coordinate system at the cost
of breaking all existing tools, with the exception of a couple that have
implemented this incompatible change.  The benefit does not outweight
the cost.

-Jeff


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