http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15202
--- Comment #7 from Maciej Pilichowski bluedzins@wp.pl 2008-09-10 00:39:32 --- Vitaliy, thank you for the answer. I would appreciate if you skip the irony and personal remarks, it serves no purpose except for lowering manner of the comments. Thank you.
In case you forgotten - windows does use registry. Not config files. Not xml. The only "text" format registry can be written to/read from is ... .reg files.
If the I/O is done directly (low level), true, if registry file is accessed via higher-level API (and AFAIR this is done in Windows) the files could be represented internally as anything -- raw text file, xml, sqlite db, as long as they provide WriteKey, ReadKey or whatever the API is (I didn't program for Windows for a long time, so excuse me for the lack of the correct names).
Ok, pity it is not text file, I don't agree with reasoning, but I don't convince you, and vice versa. Thank you for great program anyway. Kind regards,