Re: [twuug] Everything you hate about Windows?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 03:11:37PM -0500, Shawn M. Jones wrote:

> > 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)...

Gah, no!  Why'd you say that?

There is no reason a standard configuration library cannot be used for
configuration files that are convienient to automate, read in a program,
and be easy to edit by hand.

The only reason I suggest a standard is that we have so many people
reinventing the wheel, myself included.

Registry?  (shudders)


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