Re: cfgtool 1.0 -- alea iacta est

[Rob Browning <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>]

Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> writes:

> I rewrote the data storage part of cfgtool. It now stores all
> variables in one file, to avoid wasting storage. The one file
> is a binary file, which is not very nice, but it should be a
> portable one, assuming 8 bit chars and character sets and so on.

Not to be a stick in the mud, but why couldn't this be a text file?
It seems fairly unusual to make something like this binary.

(That said, thanks for spending time on an important tool.)
--
Rob

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