Re: [Pyphant-devel] Suggestion to fork fmf-file from pyphant

[Dr. A. W. L. <ob...@fm...>]

Dear *,

> Even in this discussions the suggestion of setting up an own project on SF
> for the FMF arises - which I would second.
I totally agree.

> Question a)
>
>     who should do this
Any volunteers are welcome and I'd also like to participate as much as 
my exhausted spare time allows for.

> Question b)
>
>     I would keep in mind that there should be support for other languages
>     as python - should this get reflected in the repository structure?
Very good idea. Are there any suggestions from other projects?

>
> Also with the issue of support for other languages there arises an
> suggestion of setting up distinct levels of compatibility. See:
> https://dev.fmf.uni-freiburg.de/projects/pyphant1/wiki/Introducing_levels_of_compatibility
>
> What's you opinion on this?
If we are heading for supporting different languages/software packages a 
level of compatibility is clearly needed. At present the FMF realizes 
this level of compatibility intrinsically, because a key:value pair of 
strings is accepted in any way, which corresponds to level 0.

Sofware levels:
Level 0: Is realized by libraries supporting INI format. Only the 
reading of data columns in [*data]-sections has to be added.

Level 1: Could be realized as a mapping of [*data definitions]-sections 
to [*data] columns.

Level 2: E.g. like the reference implementation in Pyphant.

In general I am certain, that everybody does need units, but maybe 
different ones. Therefore we should allow for a [*unit definitions]-section.

All the best,	
	Andreas