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Re: [ddlm-group] Relationship of CIF2 to legacy platforms

Dear Colleagues,

   I think we need at least another 10 years before the fortrans used
by our community become fully aware of line endings, so I would urge
option 2 for the present cycle and to revisit the issue in, say,
5 years to see if things have changed.

   Regards,
     Herbert

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  Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, James Hester wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I think it would be helpful to make a policy decision regarding our
> treatment of legacy systems in CIF2.0.  This concerns first and
> foremost Fortran derived line-length constraints, but may impact on
> the encoding discussion in deciding which encodings might get some
> special treatment.  There may be other such issues as well.
> We have a few choices:
>
> 1. Disregard legacy system issues when designing CIF2, on the basis
> that such systems can continue to use CIF1 and will eventually
> disappear at about the same time that it does (sort of like ASCII and
> Fortran...)
>
> 2. Continue to support legacy systems on the basis that we don't want
> to deny such systems the chance to partake of the raw unadulterated
> goodness of CIF2, or perhaps more seriously that such legacy systems
> are integral to CIF2 takeup.
>
> What do you think?
>
> James.
>
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