[freearchitecture] Presentation to the list and some ideas

[Steve Hall]

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 14:16, Bruno Postle wrote:
> On Sun 21-Sep-2003 at 01:44:04AM +0200, Rafael Villar Burke wrote:
> > 
> > Your debate about a free CAD format and a CAD program design
> > approach catched all my attention, because I think any
> > architect/engineer in the free software community feels terribly
> > the lack of such tools with professional quality.
> 
> This has generated quite a bit of discussion on the cad-linux
> mailing-list:
> 
>     http://www.freelists.org/archives/cad-linux/09-2003/

Wow, great thread.


> > Another subject I also think it's important is the XML one.

[snip]

> Actually I was pointed to the PYX spec for an XML-variation with
> strict formatting that was designed for use with line-oriented tools
> like diff and patch:
> 
>     http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/03/15/feature/index.html
> 
> ..so maybe that is a possibility too.

Having both a logical and physical structure seems exhausting to me.
Short of using a "real" db, I like your simple key:value pair method
better.


-- 
Steve Hall  [ digitect at mindspring.com ]