On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 13:56 +0000, Richard Melville wrote: > Hi All > > I'm having dinner with Stormy Peters, Executive Director of the Gnome > Foundation, on Wednesday night. I wondered if anybody on this list > had any questions that they would like me to ask her on their behalf. > I'm going to ask:- > > "What she feels are the benefits that have been gained from moving > Gnome to a registry based system when many MS Windows developers > have already expressed the view that the adoption of the Windows > registry was a mistake."
Off topic for LFS, but I'd note that most of the complaints over the Windows registry seem to be that it's one big opaque binary blob - fragile, monolithic, and maintainable only by APIs. I don't see that those criticisms apply to Gnome's GConf, seeing as it's practically the direct opposite in implementation - uses human readable (and editable) XML files, and is split out into separate files for different applications/features. It has practically nothing in common with the Windows registry, save being a standardised configuration framework. I guess what I'm suggesting is that by posing that question, you may be assuming a degree of similarity between Windows and Gnome that doesn't exist... Simon.
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