<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27749">Benefit: there would be a single <br></div><div dir="ltr">preferences file format shared among all platforms.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27748">Cost:</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27937">* currently the only platform that uses xml for <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_28024">preferences is OSX, and Pd relies on its proprietary, <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_28025">non-portable tool in order to read and save this file. <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27747">So it would be necessary to write an XML parser for <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27746">reading and writing in Pd, or bring in an XML library <br></div><div dir="ltr">as a dependency.<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27657">* can't leverage any of Pd's current parsers or <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27910">use them as a guide. For example, the Pd <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27909">message parser splits tokens on spaces-- the <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_28191">XML preferences file below doesn't fit that <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_28192">pattern-- the pd parser would interpret that first <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_28193">line as a single symbol atom.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_28194">* the linux preferences file has long-standing code <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_29383">in Pd for reading/writing preference files. That would <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_29384">be thrown out to create a newer one that <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_29444">is more difficult to implement.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27652" dir="ltr">* without nested tags we lose most of <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_30869">the power that XML would have provided. (For example, <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_30870">nested tags to make the values in "fontmetrics" self <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_30871">documenting.)<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_30872"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_31146">What are the practical problems with using the current <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_31180">format for the Pd preferences file under Linux?<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_31270"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_31271">-Jonathan<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_31272"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27613"><rate>44100</rate></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27355" style="display: block;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27354"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27353"><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27357"><div id="yiv5347505510"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487542267535_27418"><div dir="ltr" id="yiv5347505510divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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