[Dune-devel] [Dune-Commit] [Commit] dune-grid - 545f73a: Start working on a backup restore facility in YaspGrid

[Oliver Sander]

Am 02.10.2014 um 13:10 schrieb Oliver Sander:
> Am 02.10.2014 um 13:02 schrieb Dominic Kempf:
>> Hey Oliver,
>> Yes, I was writing my very own ascii thing. I mad several assumptions when
>> thinking about the format:
>> 1) All grids to be restored were saved through the same facility. For all
>> other uses, one should consider the dgfparser.
>> 2) The amount of data to be stored is rather small (even for tensorproduct
>> grids)
>> 3) The output should be readable by the human eye.
>> With these in mind, I decided, that a self-defined self-explanatory ascii
>> format will be most the most efficient (in the sense of coding time) way to
>> achieve it. If you provide good reasons for a more standard format, I could
>> reconsider though.
> 
> Hi Dominic,
> I have no compelling reason for your use case, I am simply not a fan of reinventing
> yet another file format.  Earlier this week I wrote VTK file reading for an application
> of mine, and that was simple and pretty using tinyxml2.
> If you think that "for all other uses, one should consider the dgfparser",
> how about using the dgf format for backup/restore right away?




> 
> Best,
> Oliver
> 
> 
>> Best,
>> Dominic
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Oliver Sander <sander at igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Dominic,
>>> great you're working on the restoring facility.  From browsing the commit
>>> logs it seems like
>>> you are inventing a new ascii format.  Did you consider something
>>> standard, like XML or similar?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Oliver
>>>
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