On 18/06/2010, Jaqui Greenlees wrote: > few configuration settings. This would mean that the XML format is paving > the way for future development(s) that an ini may not support.
Thanks for your reply. For that argument to be more credible, and for XML to be a more appropriate format, then Lazarus IDE should have used a single .xml file for all settings. After all, XML is good at hierarchy-styled data. But as it is used now, having many small and rather flat-hierarchy xml files makes no sense. In the current usage style of saving settings, INI files would have made more sense. At this point I would also like to point out that INI files could be used for rather complex settings too. Inno Setup (*.iss files), Apache Web Server (*.conf) and Makefile's (eg: FPC's Makefile.fpc) being such examples. They might not have the traditional INI file extension, but for all intent purposes, they are in the INI file format. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
