On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:50:38PM +0100, Steve Harris wrote: > > We're not designing solutions, just requirements, right now. It's fine to > > have a solution to a requirement, but remember that this is a bigger group. > > I don't even know what YAML is. XML is a somewhat obvious answer for > > portable data, but that may be beyond the scope of GMPI. > > It probably should be in the spec, or at least a recommended schema. There > better be a good reason for it being anything other than XML.
The *spec* certainly. But requirements? The requirement seems to be "GMPI should have a standard preset file format. That format must be flexible, extensible, well-defined, hierarchical, and human-editable pure ASCII." Does that cover it? -- Notice that as computers are becoming easier and easier to use, suddenly there's a big market for "Dummies" books. Cause and effect, or merely an ironic juxtaposition of unrelated facts?