Re: NSArchiver/NSCoder future and cross platform compatibility?
Re: NSArchiver/NSCoder future and cross platform compatibility?
- Subject: Re: NSArchiver/NSCoder future and cross platform compatibility?
- From: "Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 08:59:31 -0600
- Organization: EMB & Assocites Inc.
Processor type and endianess are not a problem.. NSData takes care of all
that for you.
However, Apple does not promise not to change the way objects encode
themselves. Since versioning is supported within the encoding system, one
can hope that apple will preserve compatibility, but there are no promises.
Nib files are just archives and they have been compatible for a long time.
Consider using human readable data files like property lists and/or XML.
There are ways to archive arbitrary object graphs to property lists.
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