[Ldsoss] Advancement tracker

[Thomas Haws]

>
> Wait.  Are you thinking that a flat file approach is a hack (and a
> proprietary one at that?)  *And* it's not elegent?


Did I say that?  :-D .  Blame it on my Wikpiedia background, I was "arguing
for the enemy", or trying to see the issue from all sides.  I guess that
makes it tough to know where I stand.  But getting the right answer is far,
far more important than where I happen to stand.

Admittedly, an xml file would not be very readable, but there are other
> formats that can be used for this (YAML, JSON come immediately to mind)
> that are human readable and easily understood by both a human and a
> program.
>
> And an individual file would make security very easy to implement--each
> user would have their own password which would be used to individually
> encrypt the files.


I love it.  Great ideas!!

Tom Haws
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