Automated setup file uploaded

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Wed Jul 18 08:15:48 CDT 2007


>>2) What should be the trigger to read external file ? (preOpenStack 
>>in "McTools.mc" and "home" stacks?
>
>"home" sounds good, since this will be loaded first anyway.

shouldn't this be handled by prefs handler?

>>Or may be somebody has better idea where to save such info?
>
>In to the platform-specific prefs folders of course!
>
>Richard and I are planning to save everything that MC needs to save 
>into an external file,
>so no stack will have to be saved in the future.
>
>Mabe in some kind of XML format.

I wonder whether the overhead of XML (as small as it is) is truly 
needed for an internal data file. A simple token-based file would do 
the job and can also be versioned.

Robert


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