[Lazarus] Why was XML format chosen for storing settings in Lazarus IDE?

Alexander Klenin klenin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 18 15:08:43 CEST 2010


On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 23:38, Martin <lazarus at mfriebe.de> wrote:
> On 18/06/2010 12:21, Alexander Klenin wrote:
>>>
>>> Benefits of LFM vs. XML:
>>> 3) can be read/written directly to the object via RTTI, thus
>>> drastically simplifying read/write code
>>> (I estimate a few thousands lines of code might be eliminated from
>>> Lazarus).
>
> There is code that read XML via RTTI directly to the object.

By "there is" do you mean "in the universe" or "in Lazarus sources"?
In the first case -- of course, I know that, I have written and used
such code myself.
In the second -- why it is not used then?

-- 
Alexander S. Klenin




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