Re: Multisync configuration storage in 0.90 and beyond

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Alex Perez wrote:

> > - it is not ported atm (but it will be at least according to havoc)
> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah....
> 
> > - it is not completly stable yet
> Exactly.

Ignoring all of the advantages that Armin mentioned. I consider 
portability to Win32 a secondary consideration, and with the amount of 
attention dbus is getting it should stabilize before too long. We aren't 
going to be releasing 0.90 next week - take the long view.

> >
> >>> * Basic text (i.e. not XML)
> >> This is actually what I prefer, but everyone seems to want something 
> >> else
> >> these days.
> >
> > This is probably because parsing text files yourself is really a bad
> > idea...
> Look at text plists. You can get C plist parsing code from quakeforge 
> CVS.

I consider plists a non-starter, as is defining our own arbitrary text 
file format. If we decide that GConf is too heavy then I suspect that an 
XML format and libxml2 will be the way we go.

Tom




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