RE: [GD-General] A portable preferences library

[Brian H. <ho...@py...>]

Okay, so back to the actual file format....

Originally I was thinking it would be a binary file format, strictly 
because I wanted the ability to serialize raw binary data "just in 
case".  Now you could make a valid argument that you could always 
convert to text, i.e. 3.14 becomes "3.14", but maybe you don't want to 
suffer a data conversion loss or something, I dunno.

Point being that I'd rather not dictate policy if I don't have to.

So instead of doing a UUEncode, I could do an inefficient translation 
to ASCII by simply converting directly to ASCII.  It would double in 
size if I used hex, but it would still be editable in a text editor.

So if you need to write out 0x12 0x9A 0xBC 0x55 to the key "foo" then 
the file foo.pref would have:

foo=3D129ABC55

Not efficient, but it works.

Any obvious problems going this route?

Brian