> From: Rich Teer <rich.teer at rite-group.com>
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> On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Gary Winiger wrote:
>
> > The work going forward is to provide a unified admin interface
> > without a requirement for $EDITOR as the primary answer.
>
> I can't be the only person who feels uneasy about this trend away
> from ASCII config files. For services/daemons, I get it, but I'm
> not convinced when it comes to arbitrary command line programs.
> It is too reminicent of Windoze's registry...
Am I the only person on the planet that doesn't hate the Windoze's registry?
I actually tend to think at a high level, its a pretty good idea. They
did mess up a lot of the details... Let's not start a discussion on the
registry...
Anyway, I too am concerned. It would be a very good idea for the project
Gary referred to, to do two things:
1) Visit the ARC early.
2) Start a discussion on some OpenSolaris discussion alias.
Gary, could you forward this suggestion to the team? You seem to know
who they are.
My concern is constructing the worlds most elaborate mouse trap. I don't
think we need complicated mechanisms for arbitrary utilities.
Speaking of mouse traps, remember,...
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. 8^)
- jek3
