Hi,
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:25:14AM +0100, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
What you gain - fast, efficient, Unicode aware manipulation. Data integrity taken care for you. Concurrancy taken care for you. Seems too good to be true, I think.
Yeah, but nothing beats editing a registry file with Emacs (which is a joy to do when, for example, a damn game refuses to re-install because it detects some keys in the registry from its last installation).
Going through an UI to do stuff like that would be so Windowish as to not be funny :-)
Sure, but please keep in mind that currently loading a full Windows registry (or a full Wine registry once we get there) takes lots of time on Wine startup (Wineserver call scheduling), which could most likely be reduced significantly by adopting a compressed format.
I don't really want to advocate a non-transparent registry format, but if that manages to significantly decrease load time, then I'm afraid the benefits are much higher than the disadvantages.
Andreas Mohr