XML/XSD based configuration files.

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Tue Dec 7 15:41:00 GMT 2004


On Tuesday 07 December 2004 09:49, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 December 2004 15:47, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > From the buzzword-department.
> >
> > See http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94611
> >
> > Anyone interested in looking into this? I most certainly do not want to
> > *switch* configuration formats, but I think it's a viable strategy to
> > offer an alternative configuration format to our users with great
> > marketing potential.
>
> Didn't we use to make technical decisions based on technical merits
> rather than alleged marketing value?

   The decision on technical merit was to make KConfig backend abstract so 
that it could be replaced if needed/desired, but to use the "best" format 
natively. :-)

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