Hi Brad, I've been following you discussion about wine's registry format, and I find it interesting. I gave it some thought, I have have an idea. Have you thought about using XML as a potential format? Since the registry is a non-relational tree database, this seems to fit quite well. Plus, there's a few libraries that would do the dirty work for us (libxml, expat, many others, name your pick). It could even be possible to modularize the registry using technologies like XInclude or XLink. Just thought I'd offer my two cents.
Regards, James Liggett
James Liggett wrote:
Hi Brad, I've been following you discussion about wine's registry format, and I find it interesting. I gave it some thought, I have have an idea. Have you thought about using XML as a potential format? Since the registry is a non-relational tree database, this seems to fit quite well. Plus, there's a few libraries that would do the dirty work for us (libxml, expat, many others, name your pick). It could even be possible to modularize the registry using technologies like XInclude or XLink. Just thought I'd offer my two cents.
Regards, James Liggett
I'm quite open to all suggestions, but I really want to get the over-all ok to start work on it. . . I want to make sure that people agree that this is a project that could benefit wine.
Please, everyone tell me your opinion and feel free to throw out ideas.
Thanks,
--Brad DeMorrow
2005/6/19, James Liggett jrliggett@cox.net:
Hi Brad, I've been following you discussion about wine's registry format, and I find it interesting. I gave it some thought, I have have an idea. Have you thought about using XML as a potential format? Since the registry is a non-relational tree database, this seems to fit quite well. Plus, there's a few libraries that would do the dirty work for us (libxml, expat, many others, name your pick). It could even be possible to modularize the registry using technologies like XInclude or XLink. Just thought I'd offer my two cents.
Sure, the tree format would match. But this would not really make things better. You would also have to read the registry at once at startup time. The best solution would be to use native Windows registry format. This way you could use real Windows registry files, and can read and update registry piecewise. It's organized like a little file system - or database if you want to see it this way. It's not documented. But you could have a look at the ReactOS implementation, which claimes to be compatible to NT4.
Regards,
Martin
Being as compatible with Windows as possible would probably be the best idea. As for looking to ReactOS as a guide, it might be feasible, but there's a lot of holes in their implementations of things, so this would take some looking into as to where they stand in that area. But it might be worth it.
James
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 08:08 +0200, Martin Fuchs wrote:
2005/6/19, James Liggett jrliggett@cox.net:
Hi Brad, I've been following you discussion about wine's registry format, and I find it interesting. I gave it some thought, I have have an idea. Have you thought about using XML as a potential format? Since the registry is a non-relational tree database, this seems to fit quite well. Plus, there's a few libraries that would do the dirty work for us (libxml, expat, many others, name your pick). It could even be possible to modularize the registry using technologies like XInclude or XLink. Just thought I'd offer my two cents.
Sure, the tree format would match. But this would not really make things better. You would also have to read the registry at once at startup time. The best solution would be to use native Windows registry format. This way you could use real Windows registry files, and can read and update registry piecewise. It's organized like a little file system - or database if you want to see it this way. It's not documented. But you could have a look at the ReactOS implementation, which claimes to be compatible to NT4.
Regards,
Martin
James Liggett wrote:
Being as compatible with Windows as possible would probably be the best idea. As for looking to ReactOS as a guide, it might be feasible, but there's a lot of holes in their implementations of things, so this would take some looking into as to where they stand in that area. But it might be worth it.
James
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 08:08 +0200, Martin Fuchs wrote:
2005/6/19, James Liggett jrliggett@cox.net:
Hi Brad, I've been following you discussion about wine's registry format, and I find it interesting. I gave it some thought, I have have an idea. Have you thought about using XML as a potential format? Since the registry is a non-relational tree database, this seems to fit quite well. Plus, there's a few libraries that would do the dirty work for us (libxml, expat, many others, name your pick). It could even be possible to modularize the registry using technologies like XInclude or XLink. Just thought I'd offer my two cents.
Sure, the tree format would match. But this would not really make things better. You would also have to read the registry at once at startup time. The best solution would be to use native Windows registry format. This way you could use real Windows registry files, and can read and update registry piecewise. It's organized like a little file system - or database if you want to see it this way. It's not documented. But you could have a look at the ReactOS implementation, which claimes to be compatible to NT4.
Regards,
Martin
I see a few people piping up and agreeing that Wine could use a new registry mechanism, but ultimately, Julliard is going to be the one who decides whether or not he's going to commit such a thing to cvs or not. . . I'd really like to get his approval before I do anything. . . I know you weren't convinced with my first post Alexandre, but has your opinion been changed since then? If it hasn't - I'll drop the whole subject now and let things be, but if it has, please let me know so I can begin work.
Thanks,
--Brad DeMorrow
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