Hi, Daniel Egger <degger@xxxxxxx> writes: > If we go for XML (which is definitely a good idea) we should use it > also for our config files and drop the homebrewn parser. Maybe we can > get away with simply using the new glib-2.0 functions instead of adding > an dependency on libxml or similar. our parser isn't homebrewn and is much better supported by glib than XML is. s-expressions are in my opinion easier to read and write for humans than XML syntax which was never designed to be edited by hand. From the users point of view, would you really prefer a XML format for gimprc over the existing one? I certainly wouldn't. The GMarkup parser in glib-2.0 is a simple SAX-like parser interface, while libxml offers an alternative DOM interface. For simple purposes we can definitely get away without libxml, more sophisticated XML handling will certainly require it. I don't have strong feelings against depending on libxml2 however it it becomes necessary. Salut, Sven
