On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:53:29PM -0700, Blaine Cook wrote: > On May 19, 2005, at 6:39 PM, Micah Anderson wrote: > > >Now before everyone turns their noses to the sky and says "registry", > >lets look at this with an open mind. A registry is typically known as > >problematic on certain OS' due to centralization, security and > >consistency problems. However, Elektra doesn't fall into this trap, it > >is just a library to access files according to a namespace, if it is > >unavailable, the entire system is not. > > > >There are other systems out there as well that we have not really > >assessed their relative strengths and weaknesses. For example, > >Config4GNU (http://freedesktop.org/Software/CFG) is one that has a > >multi-layered configuration approach, which I do not know too much > >about but looks also promising. > > > >What do others think? > > I've never used either CFG or Elektra, but looking at the overviews > of both, my sense is that of the two, CFG is the more viable option, > because it works with existing systems. Elektra requires a library > change. I'd like to say that implementing kdb in software is as > trivial as replacing a few fopen calls, but the reality is the > investment (both time and labour) required to see the Elektra project > to fruition is much higher than CDD projects can realistically > muster. It seems like a really great idea, once there has been some > wide adoption of it by developers, but in the meantime it seems > fairly academic. > > What are the specific concerns with CFG? It seems pretty well suited > to the task of configuring CDDs.
The nice thing about elektra is that it allows you to add configuration to a package simply by adding files, which is very package-management -friendly. CFG appears to require a running daemon to apply the config changes, right? -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 +972-50-7952406 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
