Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:39:33 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Peter da Silva <peter@taronga.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new user interface to FreeBSD administration Message-ID: <19980629203933.13968@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <199806291958.MAA04488@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 07:58:47PM %2B0000 References: <199806291813.NAA17351@bonkers.taronga.com> <199806291958.MAA04488@usr08.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert scribbled this message on Jun 29: > > Actually, you know, a registry implemented as Windows-style INI files > > would be pretty easy to hand-edit OR machine-edit. It's one of the few > > things that Microsoft came up with (if they did, I wouldn't be surprised > > to learn that they just appropriated something some app was using) that's > > actually reasonably well designed. And it'd make it REALLY easy to slip > > Samba in... > > ??? > > Samba implements a .INI file manipulation library. But it is evil. > > The reason for the Windows 95 registry implementation was the explosive > proliferation of .INI files. I would hate for FreeBSD to go down that hun? I thought win31 had a registry too, it's just that apps didn't use/didn't have access to the registry... I remeber running regedit on a win31 box... > road; it's already partly there, and that's what FreeBSD has been > moving *away* from. > > Consider an installation of a tool that requires a shared library; > the shared library is reference counted in the Windows 95 Registry > so that (1) it can be deleted when it is no longer referenced, and > (2) so that it is not delete prematurely as part of a deinstall. > > The ability to reuse shared objects without damaging the ability > to deinstall them is precisely the reason for a *central* information > repository. > > Granted, that's less of an issue for FreeBSD, since there is so very > little commercial software available. 8-|. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 683 7109 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD Don't trust anyone you don't have the source for To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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