On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Liam R E Quin <l...@holoweb.net> wrote:
> Please let's not encourage the use of binary file formats where there's > no measured performance requirement. An XML file would be better if > structure is needed, as then it can be interchanged with other tools and > platforms, and the fields are self-describing. Even JSON is better than > a binary file, although JSON is not so good for the document-oriented > text you often find in bibliographies, which I think was the original > purpose here? Not sure. > Those are good next steps, but are probably a little too much for someone who doesn't know how to read or write to a file. Writing the equivalent example using libxml2 would be way too much work. Besides, the GVariant on-disk format is documented, doesn't take any more dependencies, blah blah blah. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
