Silly me just wanted to create my 1st project on rubyforge.org,
and when I had just filled out all fields for doing so,
rubyforge.org told me, that a project by that name already existed,
and actually I found out, it is exactly, what I could have used instead of writing my own software.
I remember, when I started that software,
I was so focused and overly sure, that it was absolutely unlikely to already exist.
I am happy to replace using my plist implementation by the public one soon.
Actually my code looks like a litte more lightweight,
but it only implements a reader so far
(using ordinary lists and also hash lists but no dedicated classes),
and mine requires ‘rexml/document’
but theirs does it all itself — another case of NIH.
Both implementations don’t support property values of type date
and data
.
Maybe my code will survive this crisis.
Will this then be another case of NIH itself?
Or just offering an alternative?