[Pipet Devel] config with xml

[J.W. Bizzaro]

"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote:
> 
> Locians,
> 
> There's an interesting article at arstechnica about Mac OS X using XML for
> system configurations (first few pages):
> 
>   http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/1q00/macos-x-dp3/macos-x-dp3-1.html

This is an older article, linked to from the above page:

  http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/4q99/macos-x-dp2/macos-x-dp2-7.html

It discusses 'bundles' and filesystem meta-data in Mac OS X.

It's interesting to me, because I'm wondering about how we should 'plug'
back-ends and widgets into Loci.  We could spread a plug-in throughout the
directory structure (e.g., placing all icons in an icon directory) or keep all
the parts of a plug-in together (e.g., back-end 'foo' would have its own
directory with _all_ of its components kept within).  I'm leaning towards the
latter.  Any thoughts?

Cheers.
Jeff
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