gEDA-dev: gEDA + PCB Mime types?
DJ Delorie
dj at delorie.com
Thu Nov 8 16:32:00 EST 2007
> application seemed like it might fit, but we would also qualify for
> text.
If we start talking about projects-as-files (zip or tar.gz), or
compressed files, or some binary representation of a text file[1],
then we're back to application.
[1] At a previous job, we used pcb's resource format for data.
Converting it to a binary representation increased parsing speed
by a HUGE factor, since the binary file pre-indicated the array
and string sizes. We had a simple utility to convert between
ascii and binary as needed, but the default format was the binary
one.
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