Re: Archiving and UnArchiving

[Wim Oudshoorn]

You wrote:

> Is there any relationship between OpenStep archived object and GNUstep
> archived object.

The short answer is NO.

>    Now what do we do here, the options seem, 1. writing our own archiver or 
> 2. encode the object in to plist in a pre-defined format.
> We are thinking of writing our own archiver. what else can we do?

You could write you'r own archiver, and if you do not try to tackle the
most generic case it is not that hard.
The time consuming part will be the archiving of the NSFoundation objects.
Because gnustep base, and Apple Foundation are organized differently,
So even if you'r own archiver archives an Apple NSString correctly, it
will not make any sense to the gnustep unarchiver. This means
that you end up coding implementation indepedend encodings for
all the foundation classes.

Wim Oudshoorn.