Yeah! Great suggestion! Thank you!

Yesterday I updated Listjuggler, for what is possibly the last time, with the final wave 14 cards!

One of the reasons the open source community has been so prolific these last few years is because we all agreed to use a common format for squads -- the xws specification -- which allowed squad builders and tools like List Juggler to exchange data.

With X-Wing.com coming soon, the open source X-wing software community is currently holding its collective breath on whether or not the official builder will have an machine readable export function. Without an export function, we will have no way to link the squad data into tools like List Juggler (and Meta-Wing, downstream from that). And since both the points and upgrade slots -- the game's "metadata" -- on ships can now change dynamically (as opposed to 1.0, where changes were "hard coded" into the physical cards, making it easy for the open source squad builders to make builders), without an export function the community will have to manually keep track of what changes FFG is making to Second Edition's core metadata.

Now, if there is no export function is available, it is possible that we'll be able to build web scrappers that brute force the collection of data from the web site, but that is kind of an option of last resort, and personally I have no interest in doing this.

I've asked FFG to provide us an official export function, and was (nicely) told "We'll look into it", so its possible FFG will come through here and support its amazing open source software community. Fingers crossed!

3 hours ago, sozin said:

Yesterday I updated Listjuggler, for what is possibly the last time, with the final wave 14 cards!

One of the reasons the open source community has been so prolific these last few years is because we all agreed to use a common format for squads -- the xws specification -- which allowed squad builders and tools like List Juggler to exchange data.

With X-Wing.com coming soon, the open source X-wing software community is currently holding its collective breath on whether or not the official builder will have an machine readable export function. Without an export function, we will have no way to link the squad data into tools like List Juggler (and Meta-Wing, downstream from that). And since both the points and upgrade slots -- the game's "metadata" -- on ships can now change dynamically (as opposed to 1.0, where changes were "hard coded" into the physical cards, making it easy for the open source squad builders to make builders), without an export function the community will have to manually keep track of what changes FFG is making to Second Edition's core metadata.

Now, if there is no export function is available, it is possible that we'll be able to build web scrappers that brute force the collection of data from the web site, but that is kind of an option of last resort, and personally I have no interest in doing this.

I've asked FFG to provide us an official export function, and was (nicely) told "We'll look into it", so its possible FFG will come through here and support its amazing open source software community. Fingers crossed!

Thank you Sozin for all your hard work here with 1.0 - you made a real difference for all x-wing players.

Dear Sozin,

I am getting used to have problems using .xws files. Could you please implement import Text (Tabletop Simulator) format? It would be very helpful.

Thank,

Luciano.