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Re: Enterprise Software Freakishness
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Posted: Nov 16, 2007 12:31 AM
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> Yes but for pragmatic reasons, it's necessary that the
> tools use a text-based canonical format. I've worked with
> a number of tools where this is one of the chief flaws,
> especially in the long term.
This is not sufficient. There are also unreadable text formats. The install anywhere XML format (.iap_xml) is almost impossible to modify by hand, because it's a Java object serialization. The MS Open XML format is probably even worse.
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