configuration system notes

[Waldo Bastian]

On Thursday 07 April 2005 18:18, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 12:01:20PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 17:25 +0200, Buola Buola wrote:
> > > I think the loading/enforcing schemas should take place in the daemon,
> > > not in the client
> >
> > GConf does this now, and it's wrong, and the web pages I posted explain
> > why.
>
> In fact, those web pages do a pretty lousy job of explaining why, but I
> actually agree with you.  Three good reasons to enforce schemas at the
> frontend instead of in the daemon:
>
>  - you can produce C/C++ headers from the schema, and actually load the
>    configuration content directly into an optimized local data structure
>    that will be faster and smaller while the app runs.  (Of course this
>    also gives you compile-time type checking in your app, which is nice.)

FWIW, This is the approach that KConfigXT follows. Not only does it do 
compile-time type checking it also does compile-time typo ¹ checking :-) I 
think the latter is actually more important than the former.

Cheers,
Waldo

¹ typo as in: saving a setting to "Color" and reading it back from "Colour"
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