You must be joking right? Apple is certainly not heading towards a
system registry like Windows. And all it's DLL mess. Or all the virus
problems. Or malware. Or security issues.
I suggest you check out roughlydrafted.com and enlighten yourself. Or
just to debunk some of the things Windows pundits like to say about OS
X.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/
On Sep 4, 2009, at 7:41 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
In regard to our recent discussion of the old "delete your
preferences file" troubleshooting trick for Finale users on Mac, I
was just reading Ars Technica's fascinating review of Snow Leopard
and came across this:
Images are PNGs or JPEGs, audio is AAC, video is MPEG-4, even
preference files and other property lists now default to a compact
binary format rather than XML.
- http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/3
I wonder if this is a good or bad thing? I'm partial to plain-text
files for storing this kind of thing (as with INI files on Windows),
and worry that Apple is buying itself the same kind of problem here
that Microsoft had with early implementations of the System Registry
(which predated Win95, BTW -- it was there in Win3.x if you had a
version of MS Office installed).
Anyway, the whole review starts here:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars
...and so far as I can tell is TWENTY-THREE PAGES in length!
That's my Friday evening fun!
--
David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/
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