Hi Lars, Why not integrate Renaissance into GNUstep-gui and GORM? It already is an xml-based serialisation of GNUstep UI objects. I use it for my UIs precisely because it’s easy to work with in version control.
Best wishes, Graham. > On 20 Jul 2026, at 22:00, [email protected] via Discussion > list for the GNUstep programming environment <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi ’Steppers! > > > For the sake of diffability in GIT it would be great to have some non-binary > but text based .gorm serialization format. > > I know that .xibs exist in that role for .nibs, so why not do exactly the > same with .xorms for .gorms? > > Greg said once that he has .xib reading ready but .xib writing would be much > more difficult because we had to reverse engineer how to write those. > > I now propose that we reuse the same basic format of xibs (XML with certain > keys) to write .xorms instead of .gorms with the only difference that here > GNUstep defines what belongs how into a .xorm. > > > What do you think? > > > kind regards, > > Lars > > P.S.: I have sent this proposal to discuss as well as to dev, since I didn’t > know which list would be more appropriate. > >
