On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 06:59:03PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > Another standard to consider is ACAP, currently supported by Eudora and > Mulberry (both IMAP email clients). ACAP is extremely hard to implement, that makes it a poor choice for most system functionality because complex means fragile and buggy. It also really only solves the "where" part of the question not the "what format" part. Now personally I'd like to see apps develop the ability to also read an XML config format for their config files but thats an upstream problem