Should the format used by NSArchiver be changed to XML?

[Gregory Casamento]

All,

As usual I have a bundle of thoughts flying around in my brain, so...

Currently NSArchiver stores objects in a binary format.   It wouldn't be hard
to change NSArchiver to store purely in XML.

This change would have the following effects:

Advantages:
1) It would allow better portability of archived objects across platforms
between different version of GNUstep.

2) It would be possible to write a framework on MOSX to allow compatibility
between programs written in GNUstep and MOSX.

Disadvantages:
1) Archives would occupy more space as some of the binary content would need to
be encoded (probably using base64).

Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts on this.
Thanks, GJC

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