Re: GConf vs. bonobo-config
- From: Zbigniew Chyla <cyba gnome pl>
- To: Christopher James Lahey <clahey ximian com>
- Cc: Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>, Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>, Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian 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 12:01:58 +0200
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.
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.
Zbigniew
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