[open] Change saved vars file

[ZOS_DanBatson]

Might as well keep this ask open though. It's on my agenda to offer some more compression options for Saved Vars, this specific ask included.

[Anthonysc]

Originally Posted by ZOS_DanBatson Might as well keep this ask open though. It's on my agenda to offer some more compression options for Saved Vars, this specific ask included.

Not going to lie, that would be pretty awesome. My PvpAlerts savedvariables is over 15MB now, and that's after I implemented a function to purge it of some old data that wasn't needed anymore. I haven't enabled that function in the release version yet so I'm betting other people's are sitting upwards of 20, 25MB if they've never started from scratch. (Replacing spaces with tabs cut the file from 15MB to 8.7MB.) KillCounter savedvariables is similarly hitting over 10MB. These addons are definitely not typical, they log a lot of information about various PVP encounters, but something to cut them down beyond hacking in new code functions to the addons themselves to do cleanups would be very welcome.

[sirinsidiator]

Originally Posted by ZOS_DanBatson Might as well keep this ask open though. It's on my agenda to offer some more compression options for Saved Vars, this specific ask included.

Oh nice. I know it's not compression related, but still somewhat on topic, so when you are looking into the saved vars, could we please also get an option to have it save string keys in alphabetic order instead of randomly sorted? That would make debugging saved vars so much easier, as it would allow to easily compare two copies of a file.

[Baertram]

Originally Posted by sirinsidiator Oh nice. I know it's not compression related, but still somewhat on topic, so when you are looking into the saved vars, could we please also get an option to have it save string keys in alphabetic order instead of randomly sorted? That would make debugging saved vars so much easier, as it would allow to easily compare two copies of a file.

+1
!Yes please!