Elektra 0.7.0rc2

[Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Markus Raab <registry at markus-raab.org> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 02:25 schrieben Sie:
>
> > Do you have any comparisons of the advantage of using this instead of
>  > EET[1,2]? Enlightenment is using EET for a long time now and things
>  > just work, it's easy to use and performs well, does not depend on
>  > external libraries.
>
>  Elektra is also easy to use and does not depend on external libraries. The
>  difference is that we realized that there is no perfect format for storing
>  configuration so we leave that decision out. We introduce a global namespace
>  for configuration in an operating system independent way. This allows a
>  programmer to identify keys without knowing where they are actually stored,
>  which could be EET, but also a configuration file, berkley db, the windows
>  registry,.. realized through backends.
>
>  See http://www.libelektra.org/GetStartedMounting how you can set the key
>  system/filesystems/rootfs/type storing them into a filesys or in the
>  legacy /etc/fstab.

will look into more depth


>  > [1] http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/Eet
>  > [2] http://www.enlightenment.org/viewvc/e17/libs/eet/
>
>  Sounds very nice, I will have a look at it. The disadvantage is that you can't
>  read or edit that files. But it would certainly be a very good backend if you
>  need very fast reads.

there are command line tools to convert this between binary and text
format, this being a C-like struct syntax.

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