On 17/06/2010, waldo kitty wrote: > > besides, XML is a good example as well since everyone and their mother seem > to see it as a huge step forward for some reason...
I can't agree more on this point. Yes, XML has it's uses, but replacing a INI file with a XML file simply to store some application settings like "recently opened files", or editor color settings etc is pretty ridiculous. And yes, Lazarus IDE is a culprit in this too. I mean, INI is a dead simple file format which FPC and Delphi (and just about any other language) has very good support for reading/writing INI files. So why use XML which is much more complex and much harder to work with. Again Lazarus IDE being an example here. There are multiple XML reading/writing solutions (inside FCL and LCL and IDE), all with varying degrees of features and how to use them. You lost me on the kitchen appliances though. ;-) -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
