Re: [GD-General] (Really) XML for portable preferences library

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

> the developers already use XML and are comfortable with it, a
> portable prefs library that doesn't use xml will likley put people
> off simply because they could whip up their own in xml. 

Ironically enough, the thing that originally started all this 
(portable prefs library) was intended to use system preferences and 
thus make the whole concept of XML/file formats rather moot.  Under 
Windows, it would use the registry, and under OS X, it would use 
Preferences (which, doubly ironically, are in XML), and under Linux, 
some simple text file format (not XML, because then it starts getting 
rather large).

Things have been inverted for the library quite a bit.  Specifically, 
the preferences aspect is now decoupled from the properties aspect, 
and the pref lib is simply there to serialize/deserialize properties 
into a property list.

Brian