On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:27:49PM +0200, Robert van Herk wrote:
These people seem to be implementing a kinda Windows registry clone into Linux, but then secure, stable 'n' stuff...
I looked at this and, as it stands, the project is basically a bunch of hot air and a little bit of demo code that is far from "secure and stable". If it becomes widely used, it might create minor difficulties for Wine: 1. It has a tool called 'regedit', which conflicts with MS 'regedit.exe' and Wine 'regedit'; 2. It does not preserve the key/value dichotomy in the Windows API (i.e., I could make a key "HKCU\Software\LMert\xx" and a value "xx" in "HKCU\Software\LMert" and set them to different values -- this is of doubtful utility but a natural consequence of the Windows API). 3. It doesn't have the REG_DWORD type, or any integer type for that matter, yet. 4. Right now, the syntax is actually pretty text-editor-unfriendly: it has no support for numeric values and it creates a lot of little five-line files. However, the original author seems to want to move *all* config files in mainstream distributions over to his format, something that I don't see happening within the useful lifetime of Wine. Perhaps *they* should take a look at Wine code; as an LGPL project, Wine can't copy their (GPLv2) code directly anyway, and the Wine registry code actually has worked well for a long time. -- resume at http://www.cse.msu.edu/~lamber45/resume.htm PGP key at http://www.cse.msu.edu/~lamber45/newmail.htm#GPGKey