config library, was GNOME registry

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

Just some ideas. Tell me what you think

The functions could be like the file/dir functions.

You start by opening the main config location
somthing like
config=cfgOpen("sendmail");

to get a list out of settings in the root of the settings 

setting_name=cfgList(config, NUMBER);

to get the property for the setting

prop=cfgSetting(config, setting_name);

There should be also directories in the library

config=cfgOpen("sendmail/directory1");

maby the outputed file for the file module would look somthing like this:

#filecfg.o
dirname {
  setting=whatever
  setting=whatever
  dirname {
    setting=whatever
  }
}
setting=whatever
  
maby the config file for the ldap module could look like

#ldapcfg.o
#server="localhost"
#searchbase="ou=settings, o=someserver, c=whatever

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Fox, Kevin M [SMTP:kmfox@bhi010.bhi-erc.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 31, 1998 11:36 AM
> To:	'bratsche@dfw.net'; Fox, Kevin M
> Subject:	RE: GNOME registry
> 
> Well, the library would be like PAM. Since most programs use PAM now,
> someone convinced them it would be a better way of doing it. A universal
> config abstraction library, If implemented well, would actually save
> programmers time. They wouldn't have to program config file loading/saving
> code. Having such a library doesn't relate to GNOME. It would be a
> universal
> registry, not just a GNOME registry.
> 
> There could be a caplet for the library written allowing for easily
> changing
> settings, kinda like an LDAP tool where you can surf through the settings.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	bratsche@dfw.net [SMTP:bratsche@dfw.net]
> > Sent:	Thursday, December 31, 1998 11:30 AM
> > To:	Fox, Kevin M
> > Cc:	Rowan van der Molen; 'gnome-list@gnome.org'
> > Subject:	RE: GNOME registry
> > 
> > 
> > It would be handy to be able to configure everything from one location.
> > To this end, I would love to have something like a control-center
> capplet
> > to configure them someday. But Apache, sendmail, and all the other
> > programs we're used to using already have standard locations for storing
> > their data and your chances of persuading the authors or maintainers of
> > those to optionally store their data in the GNOME registry is 0% or very
> > close. =)
> > I think making requests such as these from GNOME is asking too much.
> > However, making a GNOMEified configuration program or capplet or
> something
> > would be cool. I don't know enough about either sendmail or Apache
> > configuration to even be useful in helping something like that, but if
> you
> > do I'm sure it would be appreciated by many.
> > 
> > Cody
> > 
> > On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Fox, Kevin M wrote:
> > 
> > > All I am saying, is if we want to implament something like the
> registry,
> > it
> > > would be "a good thing" to be able to configure sendmail, ftp, apache,
> > and
> > > other non gnome programs the same way. A standard "everything" config
> > > library would work well for this.
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From:	bratsche@dfw.net [SMTP:bratsche@dfw.net]
> > > > Sent:	Thursday, December 31, 1998 12:24 AM
> > > > To:	Rowan van der Molen
> > > > Subject:	RE: GNOME registry
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > You've got to be kidding. They obviously can't PREVENT non-GNOME
> > > > applications from reading the registry. But wtf would another
> > application
> > > > WANT to mess with the registry? I think this 'this feature should be
> > in
> > > > the operating system rather than GNOME' line of thinking is sort of
> > > > impractical. Furthermore, I believe GNOME shouldn't be going around
> > the
> > > > system creating things that aren't obviously GNOME-related;
> otherwise
> > > > you're going to end up with a lot of apparent garbage and I think
> > that's
> > > > something that we'd all like to do without.
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Rowan van der Molen wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > >I think somthing like this needs to be a system wide thing, not
> > just
> > > > GNOME.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yes, I will kill all the GNOME developers pesonally if they are
> > going to
> > > > > implement something
> > > > > usable for GNOME only.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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