| From: | Rafael Vicar�a Alloza |
| Date: | 20 Sep 2000 at 20:35:14 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: GUI Standardization |
Hello Colin,
On Wednesday, 20-Sep-00, 10:04:20,
<open@amiga.com> wrote about:
Re: AMIOPEN: GUI Standardization:
> On 20-Sep-00, Rafael Vicar�a Alloza wrote:
>> That's great. IMHO, *all* configuration files should be ASCII,
>> so humans can read and understand it. No exceptions.
> How about:-
> 1: Except when I don't want anyone poking around with my config.
If you don't want anybody poking around your config, make it read only
for the rest of the world. Or even readable only for you, if you are so
picky. chmod 600 should do.
>
> 2: Except when saving a mixed data structure quickly without
> having to parse all hex data to ascii.
Is that so much computing demanding? Could it be done in another way,
while keeping the human readable config file?
Well designed apps normally have small config files, and these should be kept small by design.
Specially if you're going to run the app in a cell phone.
Best regards
---Rafa
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