LinuxRegistry in free desktops

[Avi Alkalay]

> First, congratulations for your project. It is a very interesting
> approach that would solve many problems we have today. There is really a
> need for such a uniform, simple but efficient way to set configuration
> values. There would be a lot of advantages to have it in Linux.

Thank you.

> 1) Keys are not documented. Actually, a lot of config files may contain
> comments. And this is often usefull. I think LR should specify/provide a
> way to add comments to each domain or each key. I don't have yet idea
> how it could be nicely done.

Every key can have comments.
See http://registry.sourceforge.net/#metadata

> 2) Key names rely on the FS. And the FS can have constraints on the
> filenames. It is not a problem in most cases but could be one with very
> long keys or non-ascii ones.

FS accepts spaces, commas, dots and many other not used chars. I think it is 
OK by now.


> Also, do you have a Java Preferences impl for it ?

Check http://sourceforge.net/projects/jreg/
I don't know its status.


> PS: Please ignore those shouting guys that type before thinking and can
> not simply discuss pro and cons.

:-) Their opinion is very important also.

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Avi Alkalay
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Linux Impact Team :: ibm.com/linux
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