Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
Still, if a new config system should make configging things easier, it
would have to work all over the place. No apps should use other
config-methods and *swoosh*, we're windows (in the worst possible
sense). Not that I'm totally against adopting things that work fine on
other OS's, but the windows registry is a notorious mess.
I think it's a mess for two reasons:
1. the information is structured in a highly non-intuitive way
2. the tools one can use to access and modify the registry are very
primitive
Both are easy to avoid. E.g., Elektra does a reasonable job at avoiding
reason #1.
http://elektra.sf.net/
Also - Think of the additional error scenarios when init is gconf'ed.
The same complexity is added for everything else that adopts a registry
based configuration engine (since that engine has to be operational for
it to work in the first place) but may not be quite as aparrent.
A very small part of the system might make sense to stay out of the
registry. init seems to me a likely candidate.
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Florin Andrei
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