Re: [Playerstage-developers] Robot parameters database for Stage

[brian g. <bg...@po...>]

ahoward scribed:
> 
> 
> Following up on that last thought: we handle parameters in a very general
> way by adding some macro capabilities to the world file, eg:
> 

sounds good to me.


> 
> This can, of course, be done using M4, but we would then lose the ability
> to save stuff back into the file.  It's also pretty easy to implement with
> the current world file.
> 

i'm beginning to think that we should pull out the m4 support altogether.
the results can't be saved, and i think that most users will find it easier to
auto-generate .world files with a script in the language of their choice than
it would be for them to learn and use m4, which is arguably less powerful.
       
> 
> P.S. I do not want to hear anyone say XML, ok?
> 

XML!

        brian.