SpaceManiac/PermissionsBukkit — comment on commit 81ba027765e3c0216d1d39d9b5dc4a5c2ae51c54
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By Moo0:

New file format is horrible. Bloaty and harder to read.
And why? So "." can be put in permission names? Why would anyone want that when everyone else uses/knows/understands a.b.c style permissions?
Permissions may be somewhat heirarchical, but that doesn't mean the storage format has to be...