I feel like XML is a format from the past. Why not use a JSON based one? Dave
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 20, 2026, at 14:01, [email protected] via Developers > list for GNUstep, the GNU groupware evironment <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi ’Steppers! > > > For the sake of diffability in GIT it would be great to have some non-binary > but text based .gorm serialization format. > > I know that .xibs exist in that role for .nibs, so why not do exactly the > same with .xorms for .gorms? > > Greg said once that he has .xib reading ready but .xib writing would be much > more difficult because we had to reverse engineer how to write those. > > I now propose that we reuse the same basic format of xibs (XML with certain > keys) to write .xorms instead of .gorms with the only difference that here > GNUstep defines what belongs how into a .xorm. > > > What do you think? > > > kind regards, > > Lars > > P.S.: I have sent this proposal to discuss as well as to dev, since I didn’t > know which list would be more appropriate. > >
