Re: [Gretl-devel] binary-form gretl data files

On Thu, 16 Jan 2014, Allin Cottrell wrote: Here's the "RFC" I promised in response to Sven's posting at > http://lists.wfu.edu/pipermail/gretl-devel/2014-January/004867.html > [...] This little story (which admits several variations on the same theme) is perhaps a bit stretched here and there; and sure, there is some carelessness involved, but losing all the data for a project out of one or two silly moves is unacceptable. IMO, there should be some mechanism by which the potential for confuson is kept at a minimum. The openoffice format, for example, is a zip file containing several xml files. How about something similar? "Foo.bdt" may be a zip file containing pre-defined xml files: "data.gdt" (perhaps containing some additional metadata) and "data.bin" (the binary blob); we could use a "light" compression level so to preserve decent speed when reading and writing. I totally agree with this solution, a zipped file containing metadata and