RE: [twuug] Everything you hate about Windows?

["Adam Crosby" <acrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why is it a bad thing?  The Registry is a great idea, and a crappy
implementation.  Check out apples version of the configuration database.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shawn M. Jones [mailto:smj@thresholdoflight.org]
> Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 3:12 PM
> To: twuug@twuug.org
> Subject: Re: [twuug] Everything you hate about Windows?
>
>
> 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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