.pdrc for Windows WAS: Re: [PD] pd 0.37.1 Windows installer release candidate

[Martin Peach]

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Martin Peach wrote:
> 
> 
>>Frank Barknecht wrote:
>>
>>>But a .bat or .sh file is not platform independent and thus not
>>>appropriate in the long run IMO.
>>>
>>In this case XML would be the way to go because it is entirely
>>human-readable ascii text and totally platform independent.
>>
> 
> If you want me to use XML, it'll cost you even more money than the .BAT,
> because the retro spin is cute, but the buzzword-compliancy is hip, and
> that's worth solid money.

Yes I could see that driving me into bankruptcy, since adding pd.bat support
involves about one line of text in the .pdrc/pd.bat file, but XML has 
all those
funny angle brackets that are probably about $100 a gram at least.;<

Martin