[Lazarus] New XML format for project info files

[Ondrej Pokorny]

On 03.04.2019 22:42, Werner Pamler via lazarus wrote:
> Unfortunately this does not solve the issue for me personally. I post 
> a lot of code in the forum, and since I normally work with Laz-trunk 
> and, of course, forget to activate the compatibility option the code 
> will be useless for users of legacy versions. I really would 
> appreciate to have the previous solution (a global default setting for 
> the compatibility option) in addition to the current solution. Of 
> course this new option should now be off by default, but after once 
> having switched it on all my demo projects would be readable also by 
> legacy Lazarus. I reopened bug report 
> https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=22752 for this request.
>
> From the perspective of a legacy Laz user a stand-alone tool to 
> convert the new format back to legacy would be helpful, too. 
> Currently, a user not having Laz trunk is unable to open any projects 
> saved by Laz trunk without editing the xml files manually!


Feel free to extend the feature to your wishes. I don't think anybody 
will be against such a global option or an external stand-alone 
converting tool.

Ondrej