Subject: Re: proplib changes
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Jachym Holecek <freza@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/26/2007 19:47:40
# Jason Thorpe 2007-06-26:
> On Jun 26, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > if the encodings
> >are carefully chosen
> 
> The problem I see here is that the encodings *aren't* being carefully  
> chosen.  "SCN" is not compatible with any other data serialization  
> format used for this purpose, and that forms part of the basis for my  
> objection to it.

There's XML plists for compatibility, and the tool I've posted under
regress/lib/libprop/ can perform any<-->any format conversions (and
plist equality tests).

The point of SCN is not to be "compatible", but to be "user friendly".

	-- Jachym