Flat text files can be munged pretty bad but the point is that they can only munge themselves. In a registry there is the possibility of editing fsck$#!ing all of the entries (yeah, backups... I know).
Still not a good idea :-)
Cheers, Harry
Dan Williams wrote:
Not that I'm advocating it (I'm don't care one way or the other), but most Linux people dislike the windows registry for reasons this project would fix:
- All key-value pairs are stored in clear-text files. (Windows uses binary files(?)) (Next question, how about nested values...
- It is designed to be easy to administrate with regular command line tools like cat, vi, cp, ls, ln. Its storage is 100% open. (this is also a common argument against Windows Registry by anti-registry folk)
Anybody can abuse a flat text file config system too, just as much as the Windows Registry becomes a horrible mess.
Dan
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 15:08 -0400, Harry Hoffman wrote:
This is truly a horrible idea!!! Think about "how well" it works in windows. Or think AIX.
Neal D. Becker wrote:
Yes, here's the linux registry topic again. This project looks interesting. Any comments?
http://registry.sourceforge.net/
