[Lazarus] Package and project file format

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Sun Mar 4 10:14:24 CET 2018



On Sat, 3 Mar 2018, Denis Kozlov via Lazarus wrote:

> +1 for getting rid of unit count and numeric tag suffixes from XML 
> project/package files. They always create trouble for version control.

That was my point.

>
> -1 for switching to JSON. Seems radical and unjustified, in my opinion.

Radical ? Absolutely. Unjustified ? A matter of opinion... JSON has many
advantages over XML.

Note that I didn't ask for that, it was just a remark on comments by someone
else...

If the counts are removed, my immediate goal (less conflicts) is reached.

Michael.


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