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: 2002-05-30 16:08:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone.socal.rr.com!cyclone3.kc.rr.com!news3.kc.rr.com!twister.socal.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CF6B0EA.41F68E3@san.rr.com> From: Darren New X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A standard package for config files is needed References: <3CF6846C.3544EB21@nbi.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 23:08:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1022800083 66.75.151.160 (Thu, 30 May 2002 16:08:03 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 16:08:03 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25042 Date: 2002-05-30T23:08:03+00:00 List-Id: Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: > And since the specification and implementation sides of > things can be relatively independent of each other, nothing > prevents us from writing more than one implementation, so > everybody can get to use their choice of configuration files > (also for programs written by other Ada programmers ;-). This is one of the things I (and others, of course) was originally commenting would be good. Indeed, why not make the text-file format the same as that output by Microsoft's regedit program when you export a portion of the registry? Then you could have seemless interoperation between packages that use MS's registry, UNIX-based files, and flat files under MS windows. You could export your configuration back and forth while still making it compatible with platform-specific registry operations. -- Darren New San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand. ** http://home.san.rr.com/dnew/DNResume.html ** ** http://images.fbrtech.com/dnew/ ** My brain needs a "back" button so I can remember where I left my coffee mug.