Re: Encoding of compressed intervals
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:16:42 +0200, Jürgen wrote:
> I think you are right. compressed intervals are optional and I am
> not sure if we need an interchange format at all. Why not simply
> interchange uncompressed intervals?
I thought I had provided a pretty minimal specification to allow
platforms that do support compressed intervals to exchange them.
Having to decompress and recompress just to be portable seems an
unnecessary cost. Of course, if we want a platform that does not
support compressed intervals to import data from one that does,
it would indeed have to request that uncompressed intervals be
exported.
So I suggest that we include my paragraph of
| Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:48:01 -0400
| To: stds-1788 <stds-1788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| From: Michel Hack <mhack@xxxxxxx>
| Subject: Re: ... replacement for 14.4 and C6.2 (interchange encodings)
and subject it to a week's voting, as John and Baker have suggested.
The final verdict will of course come from the "sponsor ballot" phase.
Michel.
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