[OSM-dev] Binary OSM; the first pass encoder

[Richard Fairhurst]

Chris Browet wrote:

> I didn't know it was _bad_ as per anyone's opinion. Is AMF this  
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Message_Format)? If so, looks  
> very like transport and flash-specific, isn't it? What is  
> (summarized) the reasoning for it to be _bad_ ?

Yeah, that's it. I'm being flippant. Yesterday (in the context of the  
accursed composite_primary_keys plugin for Rails) I discovered that  
people talk about "opinionated software". It explains a lot.

cheers
Richard
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