Re: [twuug] Everything you hate about Windows?

["Shawn M. Jones" <smj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 14:05, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:13:56PM -0500, Jeff Self wrote:
> 
> > I'd personally like to see config files be XML based. It may not be as 
> > easy to edit by hand, but parsing is much easier.
> 
> Have you ever written an XML parser?  It's not easy at all, much harder
> than parsing most simple text configuration files.
<SNIP!> 
> I suppose I should try to write at least a simple shell library for
> XML, but it seems like a huge amount of work.  Might look at
> Shelldorado and see if there is already something there.

If *nix had a library to get to configuration data, we might as well
have a registry just like Windows (except open source might make it
usable)...

Just my 2¢ worth...

--Shawn



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