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

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 18/06/2010, Jaqui Greenlees  wrote:
> few configuration settings. This would mean that the XML format is paving
> the way for future development(s) that an ini may not support.

Thanks for your reply.

For that argument to be more credible, and for XML to be a more
appropriate format, then Lazarus IDE should have used a single .xml
file for all settings. After all, XML is good at hierarchy-styled
data. But as it is used now, having many small and rather
flat-hierarchy xml files makes no sense. In the current usage style of
saving settings, INI files would have made more sense.

At this point I would also like to point out that INI files could be
used for rather complex settings too. Inno Setup (*.iss files), Apache
Web Server (*.conf) and Makefile's (eg: FPC's Makefile.fpc) being such
examples.  They might not have the traditional INI file extension, but
for all intent purposes, they are in the INI file format.

-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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