when your a hammer everything looks like a nail SGML has been doing the job for 30 years+ is my memory serves me right
On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 02:14:30PM -0500, Steven Johnson wrote: > That sounds like a good idea to me. > > I suggest YAML since it looks nice and allows comments. > > XML is pretty verbose but handles anything. > > JSON looks better than XML but technically doesn't allow comments. > > I don't think INI files would support what crossfire needs. > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2021, 1:41 PM Nicolas Weeger <nicolas.wee...@laposte.net> > wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > I'm wondering about replacing (some of) our home-made file formats by some > > standard - json, xml, yaml, whatever, ideas welcome. > > > > My rationale is that it's a pain to change the parsing code each time we > > want > > to add something to an existing file. > > > > > > Opinions? Flames? Blessings? > > > > > > Best regards > > > > > > Nicolas_______________________________________________ > > crossfire mailing list > > crossfire@metalforge.org > > http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire > > IRC: http://crossfire.real-time.com/irc/index.html > > Discord: http://crossfire.real-time.com/discord/index.html > > Project Site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/ > > Wiki: http://wiki.cross-fire.org/ > > Website: http://crossfire.real-time.com > > > _______________________________________________ > crossfire mailing list > crossfire@metalforge.org > http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire > IRC: http://crossfire.real-time.com/irc/index.html > Discord: http://crossfire.real-time.com/discord/index.html > Project Site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/ > Wiki: http://wiki.cross-fire.org/ > Website: http://crossfire.real-time.com -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire IRC: http://crossfire.real-time.com/irc/index.html Discord: http://crossfire.real-time.com/discord/index.html Project Site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/crossfire/ Wiki: http://wiki.cross-fire.org/ Website: http://crossfire.real-time.com
