Baclava language repository

[alaninmcr <al...@googlemail.com>]

Hello everybody,

I thought I'd check what is the best place to put the Baclava language 
code for reading / writing Baclava based on two xsd's.

It could go in the incubator site or in github. I am inclined to go for 
github.

Alan

Re: Baclava language repository

[Alan Williams <al...@googlemail.com>]

On 31-Jan-15 00:06, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:
> Great job with the XSDs!

Ta muchly. There is a lot that I would want to do to improve it, for 
example making the port -> data an actual Java Map and making the lists 
into Lists.

> I think we should keep it at Apache Taverna under
> incubator-taverna-language -  I know Baclava will be legacy as it's
> only made in Taverna 2, but Ernesto has shown interest in using it to
> do a tool for databundle conversion as they have many Baclava files
> from Taverna 2. That is exactly the kind of engagement we should be
> encouraging under Apache.

It's in there now.

[snip]

> We just need to ensure that tool can't WRITE baclava files.. ;-)

There is a writer in there. However, although Baclava files generated by 
Taverna 2 conform to the schemas, Baclava generated from the schemas 
will not always be readable by Taverna 2 as that makes too many weird 
assumptions.

> Should we also put the XSD at http://taverna.incubator.apache.org/ns/
> ? I know baclava is under a dubious namespace like
> http://org.embl.ebi.escience/baclava/0.1alpha - but
> http://ns.taverna.org.uk/ is where we have published all the other
> schemas.

I do not mind. Though it would be a good idea to wait until Ernesto 
checks if his files can be parsed according to the schemas.

> (.. although .escience is not a top-level domain, .science is now!
> http://nic.science/ )

Alan

Re: Baclava language repository

[Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org>]

Great job with the XSDs!

I think we should keep it at Apache Taverna under
incubator-taverna-language -  I know Baclava will be legacy as it's
only made in Taverna 2, but Ernesto has shown interest in using it to
do a tool for databundle conversion as they have many Baclava files
from Taverna 2. That is exactly the kind of engagement we should be
encouraging under Apache.

It's also not very different to how scufl2-t2flow can read in Taverna
2 workflows - and with your XSDs the code would be quite clean without
legacy libraries popping in.

We just need to ensure that tool can't WRITE baclava files.. ;-)


Should we also put the XSD at http://taverna.incubator.apache.org/ns/
? I know baclava is under a dubious namespace like
http://org.embl.ebi.escience/baclava/0.1alpha - but
http://ns.taverna.org.uk/ is where we have published all the other
schemas.

(.. although .escience is not a top-level domain, .science is now!
http://nic.science/ )


On 30 January 2015 at 16:24, alaninmcr <al...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I thought I'd check what is the best place to put the Baclava language code
> for reading / writing Baclava based on two xsd's.
>
> It could go in the incubator site or in github. I am inclined to go for
> github.
>
> Alan

-- 
Stian Soiland-Reyes
Apache Taverna (incubating)
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718