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Re: xPLHubs (again!)


  • Subject: Re: xPLHubs (again!)
  • From: "Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 13:38:22 -0000



--- In ukha_xpl@xxxxxxx, "John B" <home-automation@j...>
wrote:

> The only problem is that Tom used a binary file, which I think
(though
> I'm not sure - would have to check the code) is a serialised
object from
> .NET, so it may not be very easy to read/write the same file from a
> non-.NET environment.
>

I hope it's not - I want to steer clear of .NET evilness so that the
code at least has some chance of being portable to other platforms.


> Maybe we should considder an XML file format for the shared hub
clients
> list? That way every V3-aware hub can share the file, regardless of
> development environment.
>

Even XML seems overkill to me for something as straightforward as a
client list.  Whatever happened to good old .txt ascii files ;-)

Mal







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