[openbox] json as config format!?

Henry S. Thompson ht at inf.ed.ac.uk
Tue Mar 10 11:26:44 EDT 2009


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Dennis Heuer writes:

> the more i look at the config files . . . i wanted to mention JSON
> as a possibly better format.

Arghh!!  Please don't go there!  We already _have_ excellent GUIs for
editing XML, and code for parsing it reliably, and it handles
non-American languages, and . . . just say NO!

ht
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