On Wed, Mar 23, 2005, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "Re: I must be missing something": > > Does this standard library exists on other OSs? > > As was already mentioned, the Windows Registry. > As far as I know, there are few such attempts also in various Unices. > Some of them even became semi-standard. E.g. nss, which is a library > for accessing the user db, etc - but I do not even know how easy it > is to add a new type for your own program. IIRC there are some more > extensive ones, maybe in AIX or in MaxOS X, but I do not know that > for sure.
One major difference in philosophy between the Windows registry and the Unix /etc is that the former was never ever meant to be manually read or modified by users, and the latter was mainly intended for manual modification. And, if you insist on going the Registry way, why repeat Microsoft's mistake and create a second heirarchy of data with its own tools to modify it, when a heirarchy of data already exists - the file system? One of the things that ReiserFS tried to promote, for example, was that 10 byte files should be ok. You can have /etc/X11/xterm/color/cursor with the value "black", and you don't need a special database file, registry file, XML file, or whatever. -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Mar 23 2005, 13 Adar II 5765 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |How's he gonna read that magazine rolled http://nadav.harel.org.il |up like that? What the ... - a fly. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
