Re: Property List Format vs NSKeyedArchiver Format

2009-10-14 Thread Ken Ferry
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Michael Ash wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ken Ferry wrote: > > Nor is there anything stopping you from dropping in classes written by > > someone else. You could use > > MAKeyedArchiver. > > As long

Re: Property List Format vs NSKeyedArchiver Format

2009-10-14 Thread Michael Ash
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ken Ferry wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > >> >> On Oct 13, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote: >> >>  I would like to read more on the NSKeyedArchiver XML format, but can't >>> find >>> documentation on it. Is it open? >>> >> >>

Re: Property List Format vs NSKeyedArchiver Format

2009-10-13 Thread Graham Cox
On 14/10/2009, at 10:51 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: While strictly true, it's not possible that Apple could really ever stop supporting it, due to the many millions of files out there that use it and will have to remain readable in their existing form. True, but it can change in ways that are ba

Re: Property List Format vs NSKeyedArchiver Format

2009-10-13 Thread Jens Alfke
On Oct 13, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Graham Cox wrote: While strictly true, it's not possible that Apple could really ever stop supporting it, due to the many millions of files out there that use it and will have to remain readable in their existing form. True, but it can change in ways that are b

Re: Property List Format vs NSKeyedArchiver Format

2009-10-13 Thread Graham Cox
On 14/10/2009, at 8:40 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: I would like to read more on the NSKeyedArchiver XML format, but can't find documentation on it. Is it open? No. It's undocumented and could change in the future; While strictly true, it's not possible that Apple could really ever stop sup

Re: Property List Format vs NSKeyedArchiver Format

2009-10-13 Thread Ken Ferry
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > > On Oct 13, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote: > > I would like to read more on the NSKeyedArchiver XML format, but can't >> find >> documentation on it. Is it open? >> > > No. It's undocumented and could change in the future; writing c

Re: Property List Format vs NSKeyedArchiver Format

2009-10-13 Thread Jens Alfke
On Oct 13, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote: I would like to read more on the NSKeyedArchiver XML format, but can't find documentation on it. Is it open? No. It's undocumented and could change in the future; writing code for another platform that parses it would probably be a bad i

Re: Property List Format vs NSKeyedArchiver Format

2009-10-13 Thread Tony Parker
Hi Bridger, On Oct 13, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Bridger Maxwell wrote: Hey, For a cross-platform game, I need to make a game file format that would be readable and writeable on a few different platforms. The game is simply a serialized object graph. I am looking at the XML format used by NSKeyedA