[Ncl-devel] annotation API for NCL

[Mark H. <mth...@ku...>]

Hi ncl-devel,
	This email was going to follow up on a conversation that was started on a thread that I kicked off when announcing the fact that NCL2.1 now has reasonable documentation, but I think that it is better to use a Wiki to launch this discussion rather than lots of email threads.  I'm certainly happy to discuss the issues via email (rather on the wiki), but I thought it would be best to refer interested parties to https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ncl/index.php?title=AnnotationAPIDiscussion
for the initial message in the discussion.

	The general topic was, "How should NCL store generic annotations and make them available to client code?"

	The motivation to get moving on this is the fact that Mick Elliot is adding support for nexml and phyloxml as a part of the Google Summer of Code, so we'll need to have a decision soon (next week).



	I'm honestly not sure who has access to the Wiki mentioned. I just enabled it as a feature through sourceforge this morning.  Let me know if you have problems reading or writing, and I'll try to figure out how it is administered.


all the best,
Mark


Mark Holder

mth...@ku...
http://phylo.bio.ku.edu/mark-holder

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