[Om] name of OMS

[jhd at cs.bath.ac.uk]

On Fri, August 1, 2008 12:15 pm, David Carlisle wrote:
> James
>
>> As regads CDDefinition I am not quite so conservative: my gut feeling is
>> that Christoph's tools do nearly all the CD-reading there is, and, IF
>> OM3
>> is going to change the structure of CDs any way, we might as well
>> modernise in the process.
>
>
> is it really the case that there are so few CD reading tools? The OM
> community is not that large in any case so clearly there are not going
> to be hundreds of different applications, but there are the stylesheets
> for displaying CD, and I am sure I have been to talks where theorem
> proving and geometry systems have been reading/writing CD. For any given
> system it probably isn't that hard to update it with name changes
> (especially if it is just a global change to drop "CD" from all the
> names, and just rely on the namespace for uniqueness) but I'd fear that
> actually such a change may be enough to kill OM support in some systems
> if the OM was added during an earllier, EU supported, phase and that
> part of the code is now running on autopilot.
That's a fair comment, and I may well be wrong about who is reading CDs.
This means that we should also be more careful about some of the other
changes that we have heard on OM3.

James Davenport
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Formerly RAE Coordinator and Undergraduate Director of Studies, CS Dept
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