From:	elgranazul@**********.org (El Gran Azul)
Subject:	Shadowrun Suite
Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:47:22 +0100

Ok, each one at time: ;)

> Wow...that was a whole lot of buzzwords. More buzzwords than I ever seen in a
ShadowRN post. But as is the case with many buzzword-dominated ideas, I can't tell
exactly what it is you plan on doing. Furthermore, I have to question whether your design
decisions are based on an objective evaluation of the possibilities or just on what's
trendy.
>

Mi decitions are in:

1st. My needs: i need to learn that, then i'll use that...
2nd. Interoperatibility: i wnat to runn all this software under all
platforms i use
3rd. Localization: i want to ease localization of this software to all
languages as i can.
4th. Shadowrun comunity: i'll try to let shadowrun comunity something
that can use, modify

> Why C#? I really don't get that one. It seems to me that a higher level language
like Python would be far more appropriate for a project of this nature.
>

I's your appreciation... c# is a higer level language than python, and
python have not all thing that mono/.NET platform bring to us. Second is
that i need to learn c#.

Another question is that i'm going to create a Shadowrun Library with
all common operations and objects to allow other programmers that use
Mono create his software easily.

C# is a ECMA Standard, Python not. Python is a great language, but it's
not my scope.

> What does "File system: XML" even mean? Are you outputting XML files from
the character generator? What's the point of that, as opposed to just generating plain
(but more standard and portable) html? Or are you storing configuration options in XML?
(In which case I have to ask...why?)
>

Ok... i'm going to use XML to store data and as output format because:

- I need not a DB... all data can be stored esily in xml and objects
requested with xquery. With plain text i should implements my own query
routines.
- I want to create output files in as many formats as i can (pdf, html,
svg, swf, etc...) and with xml it's simple, there is a lot of libraries
that do that.
- I want to create a file format easy to read and code not only for
machines, i want to let a human read file and know what it is.
- XML is a Standard
- I want to create some XML schemas to definde Shadowrun Objects.

>
> Anyway, making a set of cross-platform utilities for SR4 certainly isn't a bad idea
but I have to wonder if you're really going about this the right way.
>

Yes, i've think a lot about this... ant i'm coming to create some UML
files to create object structure of y first software, a sr4 Characer
Generator... but of course, i need the book to start ;)

Please, i want not to troll shis list, if someone have some idea or
question about it, my email is elgranazul@**********.org ;)