Re: I guess I missed the whole point

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

Alan Cox wrote:

> > access configuration data through the PropertyBag interface, and to use monikers
> > as plugin architecture. What is the big disadvantage of this approach? What is so
> > bad if we use/have a CORBA API to access configuration data. I can only see
> > advantages. Even Havoc calls it "syntactic sugar" ;-)
>
> Obvious disadvantage - you require corba and suck in the bonobo libraries
> overhead

BTW: GConf also uses CORBA.

The primary purpose of bonobo-config is to make configuration easy for gnome
applications, which are using CORBA and bonobo. I do not try to optimize my design for
non-existent hypothetical applications.

- Dietmar


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