Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: It's just storage
Author: Dave Winer Posted: 5/16/1999; 3:02:57 PM Topic: Source release of Prefs.UserLand.Com Msg #: 6332 (In response to 6331) Prev/Next: 6331 / 6334
At WWDC I learned that CoreFoundation (one of the C APIs for MacOS X) has built-in support for XML, and that OS X's preferences will be stored in XML format in the user's preferences folder.That's interesting, but I wonder whether it's better to store the prefs data in a database instead of the file system. I never considered actually storing the user's data in separate files. Maybe they have a very fast file system and a very fast XML parser.
There are responses to this message:
- Re: It's just storage, Bruce Hoult, 5/16/1999; 8:56:09 PM
- Re: It's just storage, Rafe Colburn, 5/16/1999; 9:22:08 PM
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