Re: [boost] [Boost Review] Property Tree Library

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-20 16:14:20

>> I mean that writing config files programmatically not necessary
>> enough and should not part of this library.
>
> I don't understand that point of view: any application (as opposed to 
> simple
> command line utility) you write will almost certainly want to both read 
> and
> write it's configuration : take a look at your favorite word
> processor/speadsheet/photo editor and I bet you it does exactly that.

Any application is overstatement IMO. For the application have a need to 
save some parameters there should be a way to change them during application 
runtime. This fact limit our scope to something with GUI (with rare 
exclusions). These application indeed may need bidirectional access to 
permanent  storage for some date. But I would use Serialization library for 
this purpose. Why would I need to go through extra hoops with parameters 
tree?

Gennadiy