RE: GNOME registry

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

	I was thinking along the same lines.

	The config library could have corba wrappers as well as wrappers for
all programming languages.

	|program
	         [Config library / corba wrappers
				| - "LDAP" Directory to a LDAP server.  
				| - "MDS" Directory (Microsoft Active
Directory)  <----- for future refference Microsuck uses LDAP
				| - "NDS" Directory (Novell) 
				| - "iODBC" (SQL) 
				| - XML Engine - (Layered)
					| - ".db" Database "registry-lite"
configuration.
					| - Plain old Text Library.
				
It should be moddled after PAM. A sister project of sorts.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Joshua R. Prismon [SMTP:josh@narf.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 31, 1998 12:29 PM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	RE: GNOME registry
> 
> 
> >Why can't we use some XML-like standard for the config files? I want 
> >to be able editing everything with my old-school vi.
> 
> The entire point is that the end application doesn't care how we implement
> it. I think the library should have some kind of plug in translator
> (integrate
> in Linuxconf and COAS) as well as a few grow your own configuration
> engines. 
> 
> The Design I have in my head is something like this:
> 
> [End User] -> [Gnome Application] \
>                     [ Non-Gnome Application] \
> 					- [Corba/ld.so] Configuration
> Manager. 
> 
> [Configuration Manager - "Translator" - Sendmail
> 			| - "LDAP" Directory to a LinuxLDAP server.  
> 			| - "MDS" Directory (Microsoft Active Directory)
> 			| - XML Engine - (Layered)
> 				| - ".db" Database "registry-lite"
> configuration.
> 				| - Plain old Text Library.
> 			
> So in many ways, it would be like PAM's layering. 
>  
> 
> 
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