Andreas Fuchs asf@boinkor.net writes:
Hi all,
I was hoping to get ftp space for an arch archive & download area for my UBF-in-CL package.
You do not want our version control facilities? Awww... :)
UBF is the Universal Binary Format by Joe Armstrong (it is documented in http://www.sics.se/~joe/ubf/site/home.html). You could call it a tasteful alternative to XML; it doesn't use SEXPs but a stack-based format and has special provisions for binary data as well as strings, integers, symbols and type-tagged objects. Currently, only the UBF(A) format is implemented (a reader and a writer exist, both perform reasonably well)
Despite there being another implementation in Common Lisp (which is only mentioned in a mailing list post with no source code to be found /-:), let's call it "ubf" (-:
Well, I wouldn't call a linear algebra package "linear algebra", or an XML parser "xml", because they aren't what their name sugests. I would prefer something along the lines of "ubf.lisp", or "cl-ubf", "UBF-in-CL" etc.
The only contributor at the moment is me; the code is in the public domain.
Is my guess corect that you are an austrian citizen living in austria? I ask because at least in germany it is not possible to put things in the public domain...
Regards,
Mario.