On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:23:36 -0500, Michael Favia <garbage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Recap: > I am proposing the development of a document that sets out a > distribution and desktop indepentent standardized method of system-wide > and user based configueration information storage including the location > of the files and the format of their contents. Did you even read the registy.sf.net website that started this thread? what you are proposing is.. duplication of the effort at that website. Do we really need yet another independant method created and discussed, but which major projects have no interest in actually using? If you see a technical problem with registry.sf.net's api then go talk to them about it and get you problem addressed. The problem is not the existence of a potential independant standard to replace how configuration is stored on disk. The problem is getting the major indpendent projects ( not the people building the distribution who have to stick all this crap together) to agree to use the same configuration format. Get apache and sendmail/postfix and bind and mozilla and gnome and kde etc etc etc etc to commit to finding a common configuration format to save information into. Do that first. Don't go off and try to create yet another techincally great idea in a vacuum that no major project is invested and committed in trying to use. Get projects upstream looking at registry.sf.net and playing with registy.sf.net as a common implementation. If through experimentatal implementation by upstream problems register.sf.net has technical issues that require rework of the api there, then so be it. Creating yet another scheme and attempt that tries to be technical perfect before its even looked at by the major projects is just a waste of your time. -jef
