FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Resource Compiler

["Matthijs Hollemans" <matthijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Since we already have that .rdef format now, I think it's a
> good idea to use that one first, even if we will switch to an
> XML based later (if we ever do that).

That is exactly why I chose to be compatible with .rdef: people are
already using it. For a minute I considered XML, but then I couldn't
think of any good reason to use XML for this at all. It is also the
reason why I am not patching up rez (Maarten Hekkelman's resource
compiler, which comes with the Pe source code), because rez doesn't
speak rdef. If you were suggesting XML so people can parse the
resource scripts from other apps, then it may be a better idea to
put the rdef parser in a shared library instead.

Matthijs