Re: [Xlog-discussion] A few xlog patches

[Werner Koch]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 01:20, address@hidden said:
> Regarding a log format, why not just ise ADIF?

Because ADIF is not easy to parse with standard Unix tools.  This mostly
is because it uses an tag-length-value system.  It is fine as a data
exchange protocol but hard to work with unless you use dedicated tools.

Most other log programs are using SQL databases which have a very
expressive query language and cal also be used concurrently.  From my
understanding xlog shall be an easy to use and single user log program.
Thus I doubt that a complicated log on-disk format makes sense.  The
current flog format is okay but somewhat limited in extensibility and
you need to take care if you want to change it with an editor.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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