Quoting Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 04 December 2003 18:32, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote: > > just my $.02, but, the blackbox lib now has a re-usable config-file > > parser that I plan on using in bbconf, and am already using in bbkeys. > > I don't really think that adding the overhead of XML handling is worth > > the effort. > > gah, xml. The only thing that makes XML easier is the fact that there are > libraries that do it for you. As vanR points out, we will be providing > said library. [...] > The .blackboxrc format is really, really simple for us to use. The Xlibs > handle it for us. No muss, no fuss.
As long as the current config support is in the common lib *and* transparent for all bb apps involved, that pretty much puts XML out of the race. > Now, if someone out there wants to make a script which takes blackbox > configs and converts them to XML, more power to you. Couple that with > a similar XML to blackbox format and you have the best of both worlds. Not much point there, just to have them in XML format but nobody to use them that way. :) > Adding XML *WILL* add a dependency somewhere, and right now we work with > just X and C++ libs. But that is not a great reason. The only place I see > this being of any benefit is the menu format (which vanR and others are > using as a config format). Now, perhaps we need to re-evaluate that > format. The absolute only thing that bugs me about the curent menu is being unable to include the output of another program in it on the fly. Then again, with the menu being re-parsed all the time, that could mean a performance hit. -- Ciprian Popovici -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
