linux registry (no, not that again!)
Harry Hoffman
hhoffman at ip-solutions.net
Tue Jul 27 21:30:38 UTC 2004
Yes,
Flat text files can be munged pretty bad but the point is that they can
only munge themselves. In a registry there is the possibility of editing
fsck$#!ing all of the entries (yeah, backups... I know).
Still not a good idea :-)
Cheers,
Harry
Dan Williams wrote:
>Not that I'm advocating it (I'm don't care one way or the other), but
>most Linux people dislike the windows registry for reasons this project
>would fix:
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>- All key-value pairs are stored in clear-text files. (Windows uses
>binary files(?)) (Next question, how about nested values...
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>- It is designed to be easy to administrate with regular command line
>tools like cat, vi, cp, ls, ln. Its storage is 100% open. (this is also
>a common argument against Windows Registry by anti-registry folk)
>
>Anybody can abuse a flat text file config system too, just as much as
>the Windows Registry becomes a horrible mess.
>
>Dan
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>On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 15:08 -0400, Harry Hoffman wrote:
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>>This is truly a horrible idea!!! Think about "how well" it works in
>>windows. Or think AIX.
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>>Neal D. Becker wrote:
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>>>Yes, here's the linux registry topic again. This project looks interesting.
>>>Any comments?
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>>>http://registry.sourceforge.net/
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