Re: Should the format used by NSArchiver be changed to XML?

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

On 19.04.2003 18:06:11 Gregory Casamento wrote:
>All,
>
>As usual I have a bundle of thoughts flying around in my brain, so...
>
>Currently NSArchiver stores objects in a binary format.   It wouldn't be 
hard
>to change NSArchiver to store purely in XML.
>
>This change would have the following effects:
>
>Advantages:
>1) It would allow better portability of archived objects across platforms
>between different version of GNUstep.
>
>2) It would be possible to write a framework on MOSX to allow 
compatibility
>between programs written in GNUstep and MOSX.
>
>Disadvantages:
>1) Archives would occupy more space as some of the binary content would 
need to
>be encoded (probably using base64).
>
>Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts on this.
>Thanks, GJC

Go for XML. Memory (both RAM and HD) is cheap these days.

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greetings, Lars