I just want to add that I usually am a big advocate of moving forward and embracing new technologies, especially when the old is really not doing the job or there are convincing arguments for change.
However it's also disruptive and devices to the community as a whole so it has to be well considered. Remember moving away from the old communication protocol to the far superior GTP protocol for communication? It was a good move but for a while it did cause a lot of trouble within the community. Don On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Don Dailey <[email protected]> wrote: > One of these suggestions come around every year or so. It used to be > that "we should use XML" and we would hear that a couple of time per year > or so. > > Personally I don't care for SGF but I'm a firm believe that if it's not > broken, don't fix it. I suggest you simply build a tool to translate > from and to XML and publish that tool. There could be javascript and php > versions of those routines and perhaps also java and other languages. > > I do appreciate json and believe it to be elegant and if this wheel were > not already invented I probably would be in favor of json. > > Don > > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Petr Baudis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:07:19PM +0100, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: >> > SGF has rather limited metadata, JGF could standardise at least part >> > of this... >> > examples might include: >> > Location: ie GPS or similar >> >> PC[] >> >> > Timing of moves see javascript date object >> >> BL[], OB[] etc. >> >> I think the most obvious representation as JSON is a straightforward >> syntactic translation from SGF, and a common chunk of javascript code >> can serve as that... The next step can be to have an option to generate >> SGF.json directly but I don't see a great case for that except for >> optimization of particular webapp setups. >> >> Petr "Pasky" Baudis >> _______________________________________________ >> Computer-go mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go >> > >
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