--- Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr wrote:
Is there a way to use the registry (as seems to be required for many features) and still document our settings correctly? Maybe add a 'Doc' value for each regular value:
[SomeKey] OptionFoo=1 OptionFooDoc="OptionFoo does this, that, etc."
Better ideas?
Kinda off topic.
It sounds like a good idea and it might work for WINE but the Windows registry is a bloated mess. I have seen Windows registrys get to 40mb+. Adding more keys for documentation like this is just going to make the memory requirements higher and performance worse.
If you wanted to go to a binary format, the ReactOS developers have offered to relicense the code we have as LGPL so you might be able to do this without much of a performance hit. Anyway I havent used WINE on *nix in a while so i dont know if this really is a issue but its something to think about. I am not sure about the compression and performance numbers so it might not be a issue for WINE at this point.
Thanks Steven
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