Barry.Schwartz posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:14:56 -0600:
> My problem was with plug-ins and so it was a compile time option like > what you say. Maybe we could use a database for looking up the > locations of things, given a key, and then you could install program > components anywhere. That sounds /awfully/ like the MSWormOS registry. There's an /awful/ /lot/ of people that LIKE their /plain/ /text/ config files, and WON'T TAKE ANYTHING ELSE!!! DBs have their place IMO, but I tend to be with those plain text folks on this one. I've had enough of mucking around in a specialized and poorly documented registry for one lifetime, and hope I've left that long behind! =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
