On Jun 11, 2007, at 4:11 AM, Jachym Holecek wrote:

> Add a "codec" argument to _externalize_to_file(), when NULL use the
> default? (This is source-incompatible change to proplib API -- I'd
> prefer that over coming up with an extra function to "externalize
> to file with codec".)

No, it should be a separate API call that takes a codec argument.   
Most applications don't care what codec is used and just want the  
default.  Applications that (pointlessly) care can bear the burden of  
the more complex API call.

-- thorpej