Re: GConf vs. bonobo-config
- From: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>
- To: Zbigniew Chyla <cyba gnome pl>
- Cc: Christopher James Lahey <clahey ximian com>, Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>, Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>, Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>, Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>, Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>, gnome-2-0-list gnome org, gconf-list gnome org, gnome-components-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: GConf vs. bonobo-config
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 16:07:36 +0200
Zbigniew Chyla wrote:
> On Sat, 2001-06-16 at 05:21:38, Christopher James Lahey wrote:
>
> > > Woow. You managed to store "arbitraryly complex data" in configuration files
> > > without flattening out data structures. It's wonderful!
> >
> > Just to explain, I think he means that the backend flattens the data
> > structures into xml so that the programmer using the configuration
> > mechanism doesn't have to.
>
> The wrapper (or extra code inside GConf) could flatten the data as well.
That's they way the current "gconf:" wrapper works. But you will get ugly XML files
because you must quote all xml tags if you store xml data as string.
- Dietmar
>
> There's no need for reimplementing the whole thing, especially by people who
> keep saying that UNIX sucks because programmers reimplement everything from
> scratch instead if reusing the code.
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