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Why not use bibtex directly?

by ivalm 5y ago

nextaccountic 5y ago
This generates the bibtex code for you.
- otherme123 5y ago
  Doesn't answer the question: why? BibTex, and others, has been around forever. A lot of software already interconvert Ris, Bibtex, Xml... At least tell me what is your new format trying to solve, like Png solved Gif flaws. My bibliography DB is in bibtex, my citable repos include a bibtex, and I'm not switching to this thing. What would I do? Create a doc explaining how our service now parses a file called CITATION that could be a Ris or a Bibtex, with the following fields: A,B,C... and that's it.
  - scoopertrooper 5y ago
    Parser bugs are often a source of security vulnerabilities. A quick search reveals a torrent of BibTex CVEs [1]. Imagine writing a program than scanned through GitHub repos for citations in order to generate a bibliography. It'd downloading and parsing files created by a bunch of strangers on the internet. You'd want to be pretty confident in the parser you employed. Therefore, you should use a well maintained BibTex parser, but that's not an option in every language. For instance, the most popular Node JS library hasn't been updated in four years [2]. CFF allows you represent your citation as YAML, which is enormously popular and part of the toolchains of many projects. So, chances are that there is a YAML interpreter available in your language with active community behind it. As to your question as to how to inform visitors to repo of your citation file's format. The name of the file isn't have to be CITATION, it can be CITATION.cff. Alternately, you can have a CITATION.bib file. Github supports [3] this and you enjoy the same enhanced UI features. [1] https://www.cvedetails.com/google-search-results.php?q=yaml&sa=Search https://www.cvedetails.com/google-search-results.php?q=yaml&... [2] https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=bibtex&ranking=popularity https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=bibtex&ranking=popularity [3] https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/creating-a-repository-on-github/about-citation-files#other-citation-files https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archi...
    - nemetroid 5y ago
      > A quick search reveals a torrent of BibTex CVEs [1]. Is this a joke?

Why not use bibtex directly?

by ivalm 5y ago

Why not use bibtex directly?

nextaccountic 5y ago

This generates the bibtex code for you.

otherme123 5y ago
Doesn't answer the question: why? BibTex, and others, has been around forever. A lot of software already interconvert Ris, Bibtex, Xml... At least tell me what is your new format trying to solve, like Png solved Gif flaws. My bibliography DB is in bibtex, my citable repos include a bibtex, and I'm not switching to this thing. What would I do? Create a doc explaining how our service now parses a file called CITATION that could be a Ris or a Bibtex, with the following fields: A,B,C... and that's it.
- scoopertrooper 5y ago
  Parser bugs are often a source of security vulnerabilities. A quick search reveals a torrent of BibTex CVEs [1]. Imagine writing a program than scanned through GitHub repos for citations in order to generate a bibliography. It'd downloading and parsing files created by a bunch of strangers on the internet. You'd want to be pretty confident in the parser you employed. Therefore, you should use a well maintained BibTex parser, but that's not an option in every language. For instance, the most popular Node JS library hasn't been updated in four years [2]. CFF allows you represent your citation as YAML, which is enormously popular and part of the toolchains of many projects. So, chances are that there is a YAML interpreter available in your language with active community behind it. As to your question as to how to inform visitors to repo of your citation file's format. The name of the file isn't have to be CITATION, it can be CITATION.cff. Alternately, you can have a CITATION.bib file. Github supports [3] this and you enjoy the same enhanced UI features. [1] https://www.cvedetails.com/google-search-results.php?q=yaml&sa=Search https://www.cvedetails.com/google-search-results.php?q=yaml&... [2] https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=bibtex&ranking=popularity https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=bibtex&ranking=popularity [3] https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/creating-a-repository-on-github/about-citation-files#other-citation-files https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archi...
  - nemetroid 5y ago
    > A quick search reveals a torrent of BibTex CVEs [1]. Is this a joke?