Subject: Re: proplib changes
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/26/2007 14:28:13
On Jun 26, 2007, at 2:04 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Jared D. McNeill skrev:
>> Have you ever opened one of our plist files with a text editor
>> before?
>> Give me a break.
>
> Well, the suggested external storage format was XML, but it might be
> something binary (as has been hinted), or some even more tricky
> format to get right.
The binary plist format might be useful for interprocess messaging,
but I doubt anyone would seriously consider using a binary plist for
an on-disk configuration file. MAYBE in some embedded system, MAYBE.
-- thorpej