>> Yes, here's the linux registry topic again. This project looks >> interesting. Any comments? [...] > I do not pretend to convice everybody to move to quattor, what I want to > say is that we need a much powerful approach that this simple Linux > Registry. Apple also has a configuration system that might be worth looking at for inspiration. If I remember right, Mac OS X contains a system that allows different backends (local files, network, etc.). In our case we would probably want a manually editable backend by default. Also, as mentioned by someone else before, GConf has some interesting capabilities. As I understand, GConf also promised eventual multiple backends. One of the neat things about GConf is that applications do not need to be restarted to read configuration changes (no manual kill -HUP). This might be a nice feature for a future configuration system. Unfortunately, I don't think this is the case if the configuration XML files are edited by hand. Speaking about GConf, if a new system-wide configuration system were developed that contained an equal- or super-set of GConf's features then it could replace GConf in GNOME and be adopted by KDE, etc. That would be a nice side affect of a well engineered system. -- Mike
