Linux registry

[Robert van Herk]

Not knowing how much off topic this would be, I just thought I paste a 
link here:

http://registry.sourceforge.net/

These people seem to be implementing a kinda Windows registry clone into 
Linux, but then secure, stable 'n' stuff...

Since the many registry implementation discussions here, I thought, why 
not throw this into the discussion too? It might be worth to take a look 
here and perhaps think about using some of their stuff.

Greetings,
Robert van Herk

[wine] Linux registry

[David Lee Lambert]

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. 

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[wine] Linux registry

[Shachar Shemesh]

Hmm,

How about a more general approach, then. I offered in the past to put 
wine's registry into a relational database, for performance reasons. 
That was turned down due to editability reasons.

However, how about we use a plugin mechanism. We will have the wine 
built in text-file registry handler, and we will also have a plugin 
mechanism by which we could write external registry handlers. This way, 
wine could have registry in a relational database, in a binary windows 
compatible file, or using these guys' project, and the end user will be 
the one to decide which is best for them.

David Lee Lambert wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 03:27:49PM +0200, Robert van Herk wrote:

Lots of good reasons on why this project is not good enough to rely on.

             Shachar

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