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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] FOSDEM
From:	Jason White <whitewaterssoftwareinfo AT gmail DOT com>
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On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Edward Hennessy <ehennes AT sbcglobal DOT net> wrote:
>> On Feb 6, 2015, at 9:07 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>>> On Feb 6, 2015, at 9:29 AM, Jason White <whitewaterssoftwareinfo AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>>>
>>> For those who have not seen, I implemented an example program in C
>>> using Lua to safely read data defined in Lua files.
>>
>> And that is of little use. The schematic and configuration files need to be trivially readable/writable by *any* language
> <snip>
> Additionally, it becomes more difficult to create a GUI to edit the data when the data uses a complex file format.
>
> I'd prefer simple configuration and data file formats and save the languages for extensions.

What is more simple than name=value or name={value, value, value}? I
do no see how that is any more difficult to parse than the current
format.

-- 
Jason White

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