On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerqung@0pointer.de wrote:
On Mon, 15.07.13 14:53, Eric Smith (brouhaha@fedoraproject.org) wrote:
If we go to having only binary logs by default, maybe we should also go to having only binary configuration files by default. It's basically the same arguments: there's more information available; it's easier for software to parse; it can be made more reliable; special tools are OK and people don't really need to open it in a text editor. We've seen how well that works on Windows. Blech.
Nobody is proposing this.
Nobody is seriously proposing it, yet no one has given much explanation of why binary-only logs are better than text logs that isn't essentially the same as the arguments for the Windows Registry.
Eric