[JDEV] Standards

[Thomas Charron]

Quoting William Ahern <wahern at jinsa.org>:
> >   And if that information is pretty much useless for other clients, why
> burden 
> > client developers with a 'universal config format'?  Example would be
> under 
> > Windows.  Windows uses the registry for virtually everything, and many,
> MANY 
> > developers will end up using it.  Under Linux, it's a different story. 
> And 
> > then there's the Mac.. ;-P
> I think in the long wrong it will be, "why burden developers w/ the
> platform
> dependent solutions when they can use the platform independent
> solution...."
> What you stated above makes the point....

  Your opinion.  The 'long wrong' as you put it, is the way it's been for 
nearly 30 years, and no ones right/wrong.  Your method also causes 'data 
stagnation', aka, if it's ALWAYS in the config file, and I can move it around, 
when do I actually have to enter my username/password?  Not to mention, it also 
leads to the issue of what happens when someone get's their hands on that file, 
eh?  Full access..  ;-P

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Thomas Charron
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