XML/XSD based configuration files.

[Guillaume Laurent]

On Tuesday 07 December 2004 19:44, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 December 2004 18:16, Aaron Seigo wrote:
> >
> > besides speed gained by the simplicity of the .ini format, it's a very
> > human friendly format. people can easily find and change settings as
> > needed. XML is not nearly as human friendly, and i think that's an
> > important thing to keep in mind as well.
>
> I would consider that such a low priority it can be neglectable; that
> people need to manually hack files is the bug, not that it's difficult.

I'm sorry Frans but you really got your priorities wrong here. A config file 
*must* be manually editable, with a plain text editor, and the format should 
be trivial. I'd rate XML as "tolerable" on this scale.

Call it a bug if you wish, it's a bug that won't ever go away, so you have to 
do with it.

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