[Eug-lug] electra

[Max Lemieux]

 From what I read on the site, electra uses a filesystem structure for 
its registry tree.

-Max

Allen Brown wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, larry price wrote:
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>>I had two reactions:
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>>1. This could be truly useful
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>I like the idea of standardization.  But it really matters what
>standard you pick.
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>>2. It's the windows registry database
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>>I think it's going to be a hard sell, for a lot of people because of 2.
>>On the other hand a desktop system like Ubuntu or Mandrake would
>>probably benefit from it, more than it would lose from dealing with
>>it's complexity.
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>>It's at least somewhat saner than WR
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>It's a lot saner since it uses a text file.  Or is that multiple
>files?  I didn't notice.
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>But we already have a system to provide this.  It's called tcl.
>Tcl provides a standard way to configure a program.  It provides
>namespaces and advanced data types.
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>If electra uses one file for everything then it is a bad idea.
>If I trash the config for mozilla for some reason (perhaps a power
>failure while editing it's config) then I certainly don't want
>the fstab to be trashed at the same time.  That is one of the
>flaws of WR.
>--
>Allen Brown
>  work: Agilent Technologies      non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
>        allen_brown at agilent.com             abrown at peak.org
>  Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
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>>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 02:46:57 +0000, fleming.j at comcast.net
>><fleming.j at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>>http://elektra.sourceforge.net/#needs
>>>Is this a popular project ie enough support for a distro or two to incorporate it in a year or two?
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