Re: A solid proposal, please! (Was: Summary to the individual embedding debate)

2008-05-19 Thread rgheck
Bo Peng wrote: Well, let us start from the beginning. Hopefully at a level of design. :-) But I first would like to point out that designs dictate implementations. If I do not introduce a bundled mode, I can not use a zip format. I can not switch a file to binary format just because I insert an

Re: A solid proposal, please!

2008-05-19 Thread rgheck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Here's what we DO need to debate: (i) Whether we should distinguish between bundling and wrapping, as JMarc long ago urged we should; To elaborate on this point, we could try to set things up so that the normal use of a b

Re: A solid proposal, please!

2008-05-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's what we DO need to debate: (i) Whether we should distinguish > between bundling and wrapping, as JMarc long ago urged we should; To elaborate on this point, we could try to set things up so that the normal use of a bundled file is a plain binary file (

Re: A solid proposal, please! (Was: Summary to the individual embedding debate)

2008-05-15 Thread Bo Peng
Well, let us start from the beginning. Hopefully at a level of design. :-) But I first would like to point out that designs dictate implementations. If I do not introduce a bundled mode, I can not use a zip format. I can not switch a file to binary format just because I insert an embedded inset. A

Re: A solid proposal, please! (Was: Summary to the individual embedding debate)

2008-05-15 Thread rgheck
Bo Peng wrote: I'm trying to concentrate on very general questions about how these two proposals work. The question, "Do you use zip or tar or base64?" is just not worth discussing at this point. ... Richard, We are both tired of this discussion. My proposal is solid. I can provide every