Le lundi 03 avril 2006 à 14:51 -0300, Avi Alkalay a écrit : > Nicolas, is very hard to discuss opinions and that was your opinion. I > respect that, even if I can't understand in what you based this > opinion. Avi, Let's just most software I've seen on the Linux and Windows side (as part of a closed software editor, as a FOSS and closed software integrator) cares very little about the rest of the system. It's oh-so-much easier and cheaper to dump safe (for your bit of software) values in common config files than test values which won't badly affect other parts of the system (as a bonus you can crash your competitors apps sometimes). By being dumb and blind you can save money to implement crucial bits like putting the company logo on every window of your configuration app, paint it in company colors, etc (always a wining point with your PHB, and another reason *not* to integrate with everyone else) Sanity happens when it's forced top-down by a coordination point, either (in the windows case) MS menacing to retire some crucial support bit (logo, program participation) or (in the FOSS case) some central software clearinghouse (LKML, xorg, fedora) refusing to include some bits before things have been fixed up. The fact every single closed software offering for Linux lags one or two generations behind in the software integration front (utf-8, selinux, core fonts -> fontconfig, oss -> alsa...) should tell you pretty clearly how high playing nice with the rest of the system is on traditional hardware/software corps agendas. And your want to give these people the keys to the system conf? Please. I'm sure you can find saner examples than this. The only companies I've seen in the business that genuinely cared about the system picture are infrastructure companies (OS suppliers, tools vendors like BEA). And they don't need elektra because they already know the system well enough to patch it as need. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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