Re: Improving API for lists, or wildcarded schemas

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 08:46, Tony Houghton wrote:
> In <1075405273 4474 47 camel localhost localdomain>, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 08:59, Tony Houghton wrote:
> > > I take it you're not keen on my other idea about making it easier to
> > > access individual items in a list?
> > 
> > Well, I'd be concerned about the efficiency; what if someone iterates
> > over a list with a network round trip for each item?
> 
> You could maybe warn against that sort of thing in the docs.

But surely the point is that applications have no way of knowing. It
depends upon the specific gconf backend in use, which can vary from
installation to installation. So the only advice you can give is "don't
ever do that".

Malcolm