Re: [glob2-devel] Stream I/O

[Stephane Magnenat]

Hi,

Thanks for your work. Text stream input is *not* only for debugging! It is 
designed to read all parameters such as unit and building types. For 
instance, right now, UnitTypes are deserialized this way, see Unit::load() in 
UnitType.cpp and Race::loadDefault() in Race.cpp

It is very important that config files are easy to edit and easy to understand 
so that tuning is simple. This was the motivation behind the text config file 
parsing (in addition to be able to move maps from very different formats 
using things like awk scripts)

So I think it is quite important to keep the text input parser. What do you 
think? I've no problem with more c++ ish stream. Just keep in mind that the 
text fiele parser should be able to take argument out of order, as it does 
now.

Steph