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: 103376,7624df5e57d09688 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-04 08:51:28 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: <3CFCE218.585D56E2@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: config files proposal References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 15:51:28 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.151.160 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: twister.socal.rr.com 1023205888 66.75.151.160 (Tue, 04 Jun 2002 08:51:28 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 08:51:28 PDT Organization: RoadRunner - West Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25309 Date: 2002-06-04T15:51:28+00:00 List-Id: Antonio Duran wrote: > 1. In my experience, most of the time, config files are writen, edited > or modified by humans and read and interpreted by programs. I think that's true on UNIX (esp. server programs) much more so than on Windows. I can't remember the last time I edited configuration manually on Windows. > 2. ... A good argument. > 3. I think that is important to handle more than one config file in a > single program. Unquestionably. > From my point of view, one of the most important > drawbacks of layouts such as the Windows Registry is that everything > is on a single place so applications that can access to a single part > can also write other parts. Errrr... if you ignore the ACLs on registry entries, sure. That's like saying the problem with UNIX is it's all files, so if you can write to one you can write to them all. > In complicated apps it could be desirable > to mantain a set of different config files one for each part of the > application. The ability for handling multiple config files in a > single program should be a requirement for a config file handling > package. I think it's also important to have system-wide, program-wide, and user-wide config files. -- 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.