Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
> Being able to edit the file yourself, and actually know *everything* 
> it says, instead of relying on tools that are doing things you have no 
> control over is considered an advantage for some people.
For some people. For a minority of people. I'm a lifelong Unix user, but 
times have changed, and only using tools to manipulate data is a good 
thing. If implemented right. For example, I like how Solaris' SMF 
interface works (svcadm, svccfg), and it only uses tools to manipulate 
the data.

If users want a textfile to edit, they could still do that with an XML 
format. Also, you can just easily write a converter program that 
converts back and forth to any text format; that should be a breeze 
using proplib.

- Frank