Re: Multisync configuration storage in 0.90 and beyond

On Mar 11, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Tom Foottit wrote:

> 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.
Since when has popularity become the defining factor over objective 
analysis? If it were all about popularity, we'd all be running Windows 
XP, and we'd all be using Palm Desktop, and *this project wouldn't 
exist*.
>
>>>
>>>>> * 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
>
>
--
Alex Perez
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it."
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