Re: [Gegl-developer] New serialization format

[Ville Sokk <ville sokk gmail com>]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:07 PM, gfxuser <gfx user online de> wrote:
> I was also wondering why not XML. IIRC image processing in GEGL is
> internally represented by a tree (correct me if I'm wrong). Are YAML and
> JSON able to handle this, better than a native tree format like XML?

Look at the examples. They are JSON and YAML versions of
docs/gallery/clones.xml from GEGL source tree. No problem with this.
Hopefully you can see that the JSON and YAML versions are more
readable.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Jon Nordby <jononor gmail com> wrote:
> Why does it need a new one? I am not saying it does not, but I think
> the justification/rationale/usecases is necessary to have a reasonable
> discussion and end-result.

Of course. I'm not aware why pippin and Bat´O were interested in a new
format but the problem for me was how nodes are connected in the
current format. Stacked nodes go input -> output and child node's
output is connected to the parent's aux. You can't use operations with
aux2 this way.