On Sun, 16 May 1999, Cristian Tibirna wrote:

> Until now I only heard that a switch wouldn't be so hard. I didn't hear,
> though, any compelling advantage of this switch.

Extensibility.  Emerging "industry standard."  Note that I am not "gung
ho" to swith to XML, but the idea intrigues me and I at least *interested*
in exploring the possiblity.

IMO the point that "we have to maintain backwards compatibility with
existing KDE installations" is a non-issue.  A conversion program that ran
whenever KDE detected an "old-style" config file or a KDE installation
time would take care of that.  Additionally, we are breaking source
compatibility in KDE 2.0 in a rather major way, so I don't think asking
developers to switch their config files to a new format is too much on top
of that.

Again note that I am not advocating we do this.  Just exploring it.

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  Preston Brown                                    Systems Engineer
  pbrown@redhat.com                                Red Hat Software, Inc.