Re: [Pyblosxom-devel] Supporting comments, etc.

[Wari W. <wa...@ho...>]

Blake Winton wrote:

>Really?  I figured we would use the same API to handle
>both storageApi compliant objects and external systems,
>since I think people will switch between storageApi
>systems about as often as switching between non-pyBlosxom
>and pyBlosxom systems.
>
The thing is, how do you get people to use the same data format with 
differing comments system out there. If you want something that works 
with all *osxoms, then you need something standalone and outside of 
pyblosxom, like what Rael did with the Standalone Trackback Tool, or 
something like quicktopics on steroids :)

>Furthermore, if we had export() and import(), then dump()
>and load() wouldn't give us any extra functionality, so
>if we only get to pick one, I would choose export/import.
>  
>
Ok, based on my previous mail, XML format is the way to go to exchange 
data when we need to migrate.

>>For pyblosxom I want it as flexible as possible yet can
>>migrate data as well. Data storage is one thing, exporting
>>it is another.
>>    
>>
>But migrating it from one driver to another seems to me to
>be very similar to migrating it from one system to another.
>  
>
We just need a well documented XML format then, agreed?