Re: NSKeyedArchiver/NSKeyedUnarchiver (was Re: GModel decision)

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> My understanding is that Kazunobo pretty much volunteered to attempt 
> to write
> compatible encoder/decoder code for keyed archives.  Certainly there 
> seem to
> be people who would like this level of compatibility.

First of all, I'd like to thank you for your kind effort towards this.  
But, as for
me, I haven't thought of this level of compatibility.  If some of my 
statements
sound like imposing on you something more than I expected, I apologize 
to you for it.

> I don't need it myself, but I'm attempting to make the keyed 
> archiver/unarchiver
> classes capable of being used to read/write MacOS-X archives if the 
> coder/decoder
> methods available support it.  To do otherwise would be to place an 
> unnecessary
> barrier in the way of people who do want archive compatibility.

I'm sorry I can't find a way to compensate the time you spent for it.

The compatibility in question could be left to another project.  Having 
the keyed
archiver/unarchiver for the sake of GNUstep supposedly makes this 
hypothetical
project easier.  Rather, they could help maintaining compatiblity of 
archives
between different future versions of GNUstep.

The commitment I made to this subproject still remains the same.  So I'd 
be happy
if you could go on the implementation of the classes.

I hope this note also resolves some of the problems Gregory pointed out.

- Kazunobu Kuriyama