Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 11:55:53 03/03/06
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On March 03, 2006 at 14:52:28, Tord Romstad wrote: >On March 03, 2006 at 13:59:27, Jay Urbanski wrote: > >>All of these have their shortcomings, so my proposal is the establishment of an >>open book format. > >Absolutely, such an open book format would be very useful. > >>Would an existing format like Polyglot be a good starting point? > >Yes, the PolyGlot book format would serve well as a starting point. There >is one minor problem: PolyGlot is a GPL program, and the actual PolyGlot >book code cannot be used by other programs unless these programs are >also released under the GPL. This isn't a problem to me (my program >already is GPLed), but it would be unacceptable for most authors. This isn't >a big problem, though. It wouldn't be terribly hard to write code for creating >and using books in the PolyGlot format without using any actual code from >PolyGlot. I don't think that the Polyglot book is a good starting point.
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