Havoc's Blog

Evolution guys bringing up complex data structures again, here’s an old mail on the subject. Check my “list of things I was planning to get around to” in that mail, ah the follies of youth… Storing “structs” (or dicts/hashes) as little XML strings could be a totally sane underengineered solution, but surely needs some convenience […]

I might add, simply using files for user data — documents, address book, calendar — is totally plausible to me. Make these files non-dotfiles in the home directory. Maybe make them a single file with a MIME type, so you can just drag and drop your calendar or address book between systems. Or use dotfiles. […]