> Yes, here's the linux registry topic again. This project
looks
> interesting. Any comments?
[...]
I do not pretend to convice everybody to move to quattor, what I want
to
say is that we need a much powerful approach that this simple Linux
Registry.
Apple also has a configuration system that might be worth looking at for
inspiration. If I remember right, Mac OS X contains a system that allows
different backends (local files, network, etc.). In our case we would
probably want a manually editable backend by default.
Also, as mentioned by someone else before, GConf has some interesting
capabilities. As I understand, GConf also promised eventual multiple
backends. One of the neat things about GConf is that applications do not
need to be restarted to read configuration changes (no manual kill -HUP).
This might be a nice feature for a future configuration system.
Unfortunately, I don't think this is the case if the configuration XML
files are edited by hand.
Speaking about GConf, if a new system-wide configuration system were
developed that contained an equal- or super-set of GConf's features then
it could replace GConf in GNOME and be adopted by KDE, etc. That would be
a nice side affect of a well engineered system.
--
Mike