[gdal-dev] UFO format / GDAL 3.0

[Ivan Lucena]

That was a very good Poisson d'Avril Even!

http://www.francetravelguide.com/april-fools-day-in-france-le-poisson-davril.html


> From: even.rouault at spatialys.com
> To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 19:11:36 +0200
> CC: dmorissette at mapgears.com
> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] UFO format / GDAL 3.0
> 
> 
> > > On 2015-04-01 11:17, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> > >> Good morning Even,
> > >> 
> > >> That sounds like an ambitious world (universe?) domination plan, but
> > >> before going too deep into the implementation details, can you comment
> > >> on the potential for real life widespread adoption of such a universal
> > >> format in a world where everyone and their dog wants to have their own
> > >> file format which is so much better than everybody else's?
> > >> 
> > >> In other words: GML failed in a similar attempt to replace all other
> > >> formats, so despite the benefits of BF over XML encoding, what would
> > >> give UFO more chances of succeeding?
> 
> For a really good reason: XML isn't Turing complete (source: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness#Data_languages )
> 
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