On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 01:26:18PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > On Jul 10, 2014, at 10:20 AM, David Chisnall <david.chisn...@cl.cam.ac.uk> > wrote: > > > This is important in a wider context. For example, in the project to add > > machine-readable output to core utilities, we'd like to be able to parse > > these into the same machine-readable format. Apple has the CoreFoundation > > library for this, which provides a load of stuff, but most importantly > > number, string, date, dictionary, and array types (i.e. the sorts of things > > that you'd want in JSON-like serialisation formats). > > Just as important as CoreFoundation are APIs like CFPreferences. I find it > frankly horrifying that in the year 2014, anyone who writes a new daemon or > system service will have to invent their own ad-hoc configuration file format > in /etc (because, you know, there really aren't enough of them there now) as > well as their own out-of-band mechanism for detecting when the configuration > data changes. Having a data serialization format would the first step. > We do have libucl in base for that purpose exactly.
regards, Bapt
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