[gtkada] configuration files

[Preben Randhol]

"Baysinger, Daniel L" <daniel.l.baysinger at boeing.com> wrote on 28/05/2002 (17:45) :
> I've been looking at GTKAda, but I haven't actually used it yet.  So please
> excuse me if this comment is misdirected.  I'm just wondering why I have not
> seen anyone suggest XML for the basic organization of the data in the
> "configuration" file.  It certainly should be "portable", and it seems to
> work quite nicely for GVD.  The XML/Ada modules developed by the same group
> should make the handling of an XML file relatively painless and allow for a
> "graceful" expansion, or customization, of the parameters that it contains.

Because if you make a small application it would be overkill to have it
dependant on XML/Ada just for its config files.

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