Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for remembering settings

Tomaz Canabrava tcanabrava at kde.org
Mon Apr 29 15:59:54 PDT 2013


Linus,
Actually me and thiago were talking about different stuff, I do prefer ini
for storing, I was saying to use json ( or any other non-braindead language
) for *defining* the settings that the progrma has.

Tomaz


2013/4/29 Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>

> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at macieira.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'll take my configuration files in INI, please :-)
>
> I much prefer INI too. I wonder why so many people hate it? Is it just
> because it came from a DOS/windows background?
>
> INI is a *much* better format than either XML or JSON. It's generally
> much more human-readable and it actually tends to be much easier and
> efficient to parse for machines too (no stupid recursive
> state-machine!).
>
>             Linus
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