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[Ed Leafe <ed.leafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Bryan Taylor wrote:

> We've standardized on XML for backend work. We aren't spending much time debugging serialization issues and are pretty happy with our decision and aren't likly to change any time soon

	vs.

> So the obvious thing to do is support both JSON and XML, which isn't that hard.


	I'm always confused when people claim that doing something is easy, but also that for them to do the same thing is too hard.

> at the point they try to tell me how to implement my solutions, all it does is annoy me, because format wars are annoying.

	I'm not sure if you intended it, but dismissing a discussion about taking on a significant chunk of work as nothing more than an annoying "format war" sounds rather condescending. We're not arguing the merits of of one over the other; we're deciding if we are going to commit to supporting XML right now, or perhaps add it later on.

	Everyone would love to support as many formats as possible. With limited resources, we need to narrow our focus. And since this is all open source, anyone who has a need and finds implementing the solution for that need isn't "that hard" is more than welcome to contribute.


-- Ed Leafe