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>Is this serious? Should I indeed better not use it for an additional entry? The developer preference I'm referring to is for a developer tool.

I'ld go either for a specific dbf-table "beside" the app, or a ASCII-readable file:
either an ini or an xml-file. All of them are easily fixed by a developer,
so less chances of them calling you <g>.

my 0.02 EUR

thomas