On Jun 26, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

> But what one should note, of course, is that two or three are not very
> large numbers.  Heck, I think any number less than about five is  
> probably
> sustainable with minimal code bloat and user confusion, if the  
> encodings
> are carefully chosen.  All three of XML, SCN, and the binary  
> encoding seem
> good to me for inclusion by default -- and I can't see why the kernel
> actually needs any more encodings than just one (would the binary  
> one be
> better than XML for this purpose)?

The kernel needs the XML encoding for reasons brought up in other  
discussions.

-- thorpej