regcomp under windows, registering components

[Michael Meeks]

Hi Olivier,

On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 11:55 -0300, Olivier Hallot wrote:
> It looks like services.rdb is now a xml file and
> regcomp/regview/regmerge cannot handle it anymore. Besides, this xml
> is a one-line file, so pretty hard to edit without unwindind it.

	Yep; crunching the whitespace makes it faster to parse, but much harder
to edit.

> My 2 questions:
> Is there a tool to handle services.rdb, beside pure xml text edition?

	I use  xmllint --format (from libxml2) to read it. We could of course
do some small XSLT-ness to have a newlines for each <component> - that
might make it easier to trivially remove components.

	Adding new components is even easier - just drop a file in
program/services/ - and it will be parsed & incorporated on next start.

> How easy it is to have the extension manager GUI as a installable
> module, or bundled optional extension? Is it something that can fit
> into an easy hack? (I am seeking to clone the update manager feature
> as starting point).

	You want to get rid of the extension manager GUI ? or you want a
separate, stand-alone "extension manager" GUI ? :-) or you want to make
it easier to edit the services.rdb ?

	Ultimately the services.rdb doesn't have to be crunched like that it
can be verbose and more human editable if you like that, but prolly
worth avoiding that for the default install.

	HTH,

		Michael.

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