From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,47bc849aad30d586 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-29 14:42:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newshub.sdsu.edu!west.cox.net!cox.net!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: achrist@easystreet.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 14:42:40 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <3CF54B50.9E73654B@easystreet.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3CF3B160.DF10E94F@san.rr.com> <3CF500A2.1A9428E2@san.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24964 Date: 2002-05-29T14:42:40-07:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote: > > Preben Randhol wrote: > > But we don't want to use any Windows API for reading .ini files. > > Correct. My point is that since they're API compatible under Windows, one > should strive to make them API compatible in the Ada implementation, where > possible. > If you are running under Windows and you don't want to use the Windows API, you should not use *.ini file names. Windows assumes that you won't muck with ini files except through the Windows API's. These should be off-limits to homegrown code going around the Windows APIs just like the registry is, because the Windows APIs link the two concepts in arbitrary ways. Besides that, the suggestions that Ada could have something like java properties are pretty good. Al