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Re: CIF 2.0 syntax proposal for retaining backwards CIF 1.xcompatibility. .
- To: "Discussion list of the IUCr Committee for the Maintenance of the CIF Standard (COMCIFS)" <comcifs@iucr.org>
- Subject: Re: CIF 2.0 syntax proposal for retaining backwards CIF 1.xcompatibility. .
- From: Brian Toby <Brian.Toby@ANL.gov>
- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:19:16 -0500
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I have not been on COMCIFS for many years, but as long as I get the e-mails, I am not going to withhold my 2¢ ($0.02 without unicode). Managing a database or codebase is a tough enough task without the problems of people creating new new incompatible formats. If it is really going to make CIF2 better to break the old format, then I reluctantly will ceed to that, but the idea of of creating a bridging format (CIF1.2) that permits simple interconversion with CIF2 is going to save a lot of problems and may even encourage the eventual adoption of CIF2. I strongly encourage that. Brian On Sep 17, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Bollinger, John C wrote: The fundamental question Saulius raises is whether a new, backwards-incompatible version of CIF is relevant or desirable. Are the costs of dropping backwards compatibility too high for the benefits we hope to gain? From a higher perspective, those costs may include some or all of the following: ******************************************************************** Brian H. Toby, Ph.D. office: 630-252-5488 Senior Physicist/Section Head for Scientific Software Advanced Photon Source 9700 S. Cass Ave, Bldg. 401/B4192 work cell: 630-327-8426 Argonne National Laboratory Argonne, IL 60439-4856 e-mail: brian dot toby at anl dot gov ******************************************************************** "We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders... We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories... All this we can do. All this we will do." |
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