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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 3175375" data-attributes="member: 9254"><p>Yes and no. I've seen on the Y! group how the coders find it slow going to streamline things and they know what they're doing. However it seems that an encrypted remote access plug-in is quite viable and requires virtually no contact with PCGen's messy viscera, has a much smaller code-base to support, and could be done with minimal contact with the PCGen team. </p><p></p><p>It could be a gateway step since they they only need to decide if they are going to fork or maintain their LST files once PCGen fails to support the WotC LST files. PCGen updates roughly annually so they'd have roughly a year to see if their online service succeeded or failed, which could moot the whole question. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>While I am merely speculating abou the terms of the CMP-WotC agreement, I think it is plausible that WotC has the rights to those data sets. It could even be set up so that WotC cannot "distribute" them, protecting CMP from direct WotC competition. However if WotC hosts those files on their own servers and never lets them go, it may bypass the "distribution" clauses.</p><p></p><p>As for supporting other programs, they could implement PCGen support incredibly quickly if they have the rights to the LST files. And I suspect that WHasbrotC is highly unlikely to do anything that would make the data easier to pirate and XML would definitely do that. Plus, LST->XML is a nightmare, as the PCGen folks have argued over time and time again. Redoing that work would be even more manual effort than a LST->XML conversion. Highly unlikely.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 3175375, member: 9254"] Yes and no. I've seen on the Y! group how the coders find it slow going to streamline things and they know what they're doing. However it seems that an encrypted remote access plug-in is quite viable and requires virtually no contact with PCGen's messy viscera, has a much smaller code-base to support, and could be done with minimal contact with the PCGen team. It could be a gateway step since they they only need to decide if they are going to fork or maintain their LST files once PCGen fails to support the WotC LST files. PCGen updates roughly annually so they'd have roughly a year to see if their online service succeeded or failed, which could moot the whole question. While I am merely speculating abou the terms of the CMP-WotC agreement, I think it is plausible that WotC has the rights to those data sets. It could even be set up so that WotC cannot "distribute" them, protecting CMP from direct WotC competition. However if WotC hosts those files on their own servers and never lets them go, it may bypass the "distribution" clauses. As for supporting other programs, they could implement PCGen support incredibly quickly if they have the rights to the LST files. And I suspect that WHasbrotC is highly unlikely to do anything that would make the data easier to pirate and XML would definitely do that. Plus, LST->XML is a nightmare, as the PCGen folks have argued over time and time again. Redoing that work would be even more manual effort than a LST->XML conversion. Highly unlikely. [/QUOTE]
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