Using -[NSDictionary descriptionWithLocale:indent:] I think we can
already output a gorm file as a text property list with no indentation
(and it sorts dictionary content by key).
I suspect that format would be highly suitable for diff:
Using no indent means that adding enclosing containers doesn't change
the lines representing the content of those containers.
Having dictionaries sorted by key means that fields are present in a
consistent order.
On 21/07/2026 16:41, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
David Wetzel via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming
environment wrote:
I feel like XML is a format from the past. Why not use a JSON based one?
I would use neither, I would just use plists, our native format.
Actually, probably both plist as XML-encoded plists would work.
JSON is just a bad plist :) and has absolutely no type encoding.
Riccardo
