On 10/23/07, Jeff Nowakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 01:16 -0700, Phil G wrote: > > As a community, I believe we can improve SGF by extending the > > specification slightly to allow points to also be encoded in > > "standard" coordinates and depreciated, admittedly slowly, the use of > > the old coordinate system. We already see Go programs (SmartGo, GoGui > > and others) supporting this format. Maybe this can be a key point in > > the proposed FF[5] specification. > > As a community, I don't think we should support *breaking* an existing, > well-established data format over something as trivial as the coordinate > system used. There are much bigger issues with sgf, such as not being > able to follow a teaching review that jumps around nodes.
I think that any standard that is inconsistent with every other standard should get fixed. Honestly, it seems really strange to me that the FF[4] GM[1] standard got defined the way that it was. Obviously, small changes can't be done violently as it'd break everything. For an sgf reader, this change is so simple to implement, it's trivial. By first getting programs to read the formats and make converters available, it becomes quite safe to shift the standard. PS: I'm all for your suggestion to enhance the format to support real-time playback of games/review. I don't know if it's FF[5] or maybe GM[2], but that'd definitely be a nice change.
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