Instead of XML "or" a proprietary binary format could we try using a
standard binary format such as Protocol Buffers as a base to reduce the
issues with having to implement the reading/writing in multiple languages?
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://danielfriesen.name/]
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 11:56:50 -0700, Tyler Romeo <[email protected]>
wrote:
Petr is right on par with this one. The purpose of this version 2 for
dumps
is to allow protocol-specific incremental updating of the dump, which
would
be significantly more difficult in non-binary format.
*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected]
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