> - Certainly Steve is quite correct that config/preference info should > not be Java-specific. I cringe at the buzzword-of-the-moment aspects > of XML, but concede that it is at least worth considering as a format.
Have you ever editted an XML config file? It sucks. Possibly not as bad as an X config file, but definitely worse than .freenetrc. > I'd avoid the OS directory (typically, "C:/WINDOWS/"). It's already > rather cluttered, and some net admins restrict or tightly monitor what > goes in there. Applications should install all of their files in their own little directory unless you are installing them for system wide use on a multiuser system. C:\WINDOWS and the registry are evils that should be avoided at all cost. Running a UNIX daemon is an exception because there is a long history of putting things in /usr/local/bin, /etc, /var/spool, /var/log, etc.. > network admin. Oskar and Scott think I'm nuts, to put it mildly. :-) Yeah, that's crazy. I just don't see why you want to dynamically configure your node. Just write a new config file and restart. Yes, in many systems that would be annoying (like Windows, for instance), but in this case it seems more sensible to me to restart after changes. What kind of changes would you want to make without restarting? And why do you want to do them without access to the machine the node is running on? _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
