[MPEG-OTSPEC] mapping out dmap

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Tue Apr 23 20:34:51 CEST 2024


You can easily configure github to email you of any discussion. So that
issue is moot IMO.

On the other hand, GitHub discussions are more accessible and more likely
to survive than the archives of this list.


On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 12:33 PM Hin-Tak Leung via mpeg-otspec <
mpeg-otspec at lists.aau.at> wrote:

> FWIW, I am weakly opposed to web-site based discussions. I don't monitor
> any/most web pages/forums, even if I visit them from time to time.
>
> Also, e-mails are distributed in nature (everybody has a copy; you delete
> yours, I still have mine), web-site discussions, you are relying on the
> hosting company staying in business/online. Although the chance of github
> going bankrupt is very small, and its being unavailable and offline for
> extended period is also quite low.
>
> On Tuesday, 23 April 2024 at 19:04:20 BST, Ned Holbrook via mpeg-otspec <
> mpeg-otspec at lists.aau.at> wrote:
>
>
> I think some people were weakly opposed to discussing technical details
> over email, and based on github comments there seemed to be general
> consensus in favor of allowing deletion.
>
> > On Apr 23, 2024, at 9:46 AM, Takaaki Fuji 藤 貴亮 via mpeg-otspec <
> mpeg-otspec at lists.aau.at> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for confirmation! I’m okay with this and I was just curious
> about the conclusion so far.
> >
> > Takaaki Fuji
> >
> >> On Apr 24, 2024, at 1:37, Liam R. E. Quin <liam at fromoldbooks.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 2024-04-24 at 01:22 +0900, Takaaki Fuji 藤 貴亮 wrote:
> >>> So is ‘DMAP’ in the resulted draft going to be additive only and not
> >>> to allow removing mappings defined in ‘cmap’? Just for clarification
> >>> as it looked it’d been discussed for some time.
> >>
> >> Yes. I posted to the list some time ago to ask about deleting, and got
> >> no replies. It’s conceivable that deleting could be added through the
> >> commenting process, but i am not certain.
> >>
> >> liam
> >>
> >> --
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