Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Does this standard library exists on other OSs?
Windows has (how typical) two:
The registry, and the older "INI" one
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/mslu/winprog/unicode_layer_ini_file_functions.asp).
Nowadays, they have 3, if you count the .NET's various settings
(ApplicationSettings, web.config...) which are stored in scattered XML
files. Microsoft has probably found that the registry, while being a
fancy centralized system following the best practices of the NT system
(e.g. ACL and ownership for every key, notifications of changes, secure
remote access), was lacking in usability. In .NET, you can simply unpack
a config file in the same directory with your EXE and it'll pick it up,
just like with INI files.
(BTW, Mono also follows this practice for its own configuration files.)
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