UniConf (was: Scheduling subsystems (crontab, at) and the desktop)
Patrick Patterson
ppatters at nit.ca
Sun Aug 1 17:06:12 EEST 2004
Hi Thomas:
On Saturday 31 July 2004 08:14, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> Issues:
>
> - Each application builds up its own namespace at startup. This seems to
> mean that the backend used is determined by the application, not the
> user. I should be able to tell all my applications to store config in a
> remote database, or in local .ini files, or whatever, and have all
> applications do that. Obviously this is possible, but we need a standard
> way to do it, preferably in a library.
>
Actually, what you want here is already possible - all clients could use slp:
or tcp:localhost for the moniker, to connect to the daemon. The daemon would
then know about about the remote database, ini files, etc.
> - We need to define shared keys and arrange a namespace that people can
> add to without collisions.
>
Granted...
> - "Computers are fast". Still, at login you have a lot of applications
> reading in a lot of settings. Some benchmarks would be reassuring.
>
Ok, we'll see what we can do...
> - How tied up with wvstreams is uniconf? It doesn't look like there's a
> separate release, or a way to build it separately. It would be good to
> be able to try it out on its own.
>
We're currently working on breaking the two of them out, since UniConf is
really a stand alone application and a specification where the current
implementation uses WvStreams.
> - Is anyone else using UniConf?
To the best of my knowledge, umm, no :)
But, we're working on fixing this....
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Patrick Patterson
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Net Integration Technologies Inc.
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