Re: Why not persue both? (Was RE: XML)
robert nospam at moon.eorbit.net
Tue, 9 Mar 1999 10:40:13 -0800 (PST)
On 9 Mar, Jordan Christensen wrote:
> I think we may be getting ahead of ourselves here. We do need to set
> certain priorities as to what we want to do. Kyle has already mentioned
> that we need to put some serious design into this, and I think everyone
> agrees with that. In the mean time, we are without a free database.
>
> Wouldn't it be worthwhile to support the efforts of the cdindex project,
> if not only to build up a new database? While that is progressing, the
> members of this list and the freecddb list can brainstorm on the best way
> to proceed. Whether we end up using a CDDB-style output, or an XML based
> one, or what ever, is largely irrelevant. In the end, they are just
> presentation formats.
I really like this idea -- many people have offered a ton of good
suggestions, all of which will be hard to accomodate very quickly. I
would like to see a better system designed (the XML approach does sound
quite promising!) that we can migrate to.
--ruaok Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing
Robert Kaye -- robert nospam at moon.eorbit.net http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert