Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 1 #29 - 14 msgs
Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 1 #29 - 14 msgs
- Subject: Re: cocoa-dev digest, Vol 1 #29 - 14 msgs
- From: Richard Kiss <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 13:16:23 -0700
on 5/13/2001 11:20:28 -0500, Ricky A. Sharp wrote:
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> Proprietary binary formats become less and less, and hopefully soon
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> will be extinguished..
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I don't think they'll ever go away. If you take a look at all files that an
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application can work with, they can be categorized into the following:
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(a) documents that can only be used by the application (e.g. a "high scores"
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file, or prefs file). Here, using open formats often don't make any sense.
I respectfully disagree. In this example, I would suggest using NSDictionary
or CFDictionary and an XML plist file for easy reading, writing,
expandability and openness. The only benefit to using a binary format that
springs to mind would be compactness, which I don't believe is all that
compelling in this case.
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