Re: GConf design goals.

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth Sun COM>]

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>Colm Smyth wrote:
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>> >The difference is that only bonobo-conf programs can access those
>> >values if I decode everything into a string. Else every program can
>> >access/modify those values.
>>
>> Wrong. Only programs that know about the data-structure you are
>> encoding and the encoding method can access those values.
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>Hi Colm,
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>that is not true. You can explore the contents of each CORBA_any with
>the DynAny interface (see CORBA specs).

No real application will do this; if they did, it would completely
negate the convenience of storing a structure in the first place.

Colm.

>- Dietmar
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