Critical info (was Upgrading...)

[Jonathan Hutchins]

(Regarding the identity config info that's independent of program preferences, 
like mail account logins and address book, and their lack of portability.)

> On Friday 05 January 2007 11:36, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > I don't know what the answer is, but there oughta be a better way.

On Friday 05 January 2007 11:42, Luke -Jr wrote:
> Perhaps start a FreeDesktop project for creating common configuration
> files. eg, ~/.irc-client or such

I don't think we need binary compatibility; that precludes advances in how the 
info is stored.

Perhaps something from the old FIDOnet BBS days would be good - a common 
format (XML?) user-readable text file that is read whenever it's 
changed/updated and compiled into whatever format a given program uses; and 
is updates if changes are made within that program's interface.