Status of gconf -> dconf

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Tue Feb 24 14:38:19 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 15:23 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:08:53 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 
> > If you have to ask this question it means you never tried changing
> > configuration files from an application (or did a sloppy hack that
> > *mostly* works).
> 
> Enlighten me, please. Why is (safely) writing a structured text file
> fundamentally more secure/easy/failsafe then (safely) writing a single value
> into a text file?

A structured file is only much easier to handle in an application not
safer to write.
A database-like file is safer to write (and even more easier to handle
in an app).

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York




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