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Re: [ddlm-group] Relationship of CIF2 to legacy platforms
- To: Group finalising DDLm and associated dictionaries <ddlm-group@iucr.org>
- Subject: Re: [ddlm-group] Relationship of CIF2 to legacy platforms
- From: "Herbert J. Bernstein" <yaya@bernstein-plus-sons.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:15:55 -0400 (EDT)
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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 ===================================================== Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121 Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769 +1-631-244-3035 yaya@dowling.edu ===================================================== 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. > > -- > T +61 (02) 9717 9907 > F +61 (02) 9717 3145 > M +61 (04) 0249 4148 > _______________________________________________ > ddlm-group mailing list > ddlm-group@iucr.org > http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/ddlm-group > _______________________________________________ ddlm-group mailing list ddlm-group@iucr.org http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/ddlm-group
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