hi
Did any of you read the documentation of Elektra ?
http://elektra.sourceforge.net/
If you ask me , Elektra is not even remotely similar to MS's Registry.
It's only an API to manage little (human-readable) text files.
(I even sent a patch once to make text files more readable - to
prepend #
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 07:14:15AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> > Don't you want a parser for a simple language? libc? lex+bison?
> >
> >
> libc? What does it have to do with anything?
If all you want is get(PermitRootLogin) and you are willing to deal
with fscanf has
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:28:45PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Obviously, that would only apply to a certain format of file. Most
> files, however, use a "key value" or "key=value" format, with minor
> variants. Answering Nadav's question - yes, even sendmail and apache.
> Apache segments t
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:35:04PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "Re: I must be missing
> something":
> > > Does this standard library exists on other OSs?
> >
> > As was already mentioned, the Win
Shaul Karl wrote:
Don't you want a parser for a simple language? libc? lex+bison?
libc? What does it have to do with anything?
lex+bison are great. Really. However, they seem way too complex for such
a purpose. All I want is a standard library that will do the work for
me. Using lex+bison inc
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:28:45PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> >
> > Not sure I understand what you are after. Suppose there would have
> >been # include . What API would you expect to
> >find in it?
> >
> The most basic API is "get me the value this key has". So that if I have
> "PermiteRootL
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Just
about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in /etc.
They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply defies logic that
there would be no standard library to read this configuration file in.
"The nice thing about standards is that
there a
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 23:28 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:46:24PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> >
> >
> >>There is no other explanation.
> >>
> >>Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in
> >>/etc. They all fairly
Nadav Har'El wrote:
One major difference in philosophy between the Windows registry and the
Unix /etc is that the former was never ever meant to be manually read
or modified by users, and the latter was mainly intended for manual
modification.
Don't get me wrong. Not for one second. I will not t
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote about "Re: I must be missing
something":
> > Does this standard library exists on other OSs?
>
> As was already mentioned, the Windows Registry.
> As far as I know, there are few such attempts also in various Unices.
&
Shaul Karl wrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:46:24PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
There is no other explanation.
Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in
/etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply defies
logic that there would be no standard librar
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:09:01PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:46:24PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> > There is no other explanation.
> >
> > Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in
> > /etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It s
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 07:46:24PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> There is no other explanation.
>
> Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in
> /etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply defies
> logic that there would be no standard library to read
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "I must be missing something":
> There is no other explanation.
>
> Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in
> /etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply defies logic
> that t
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
There is no other explanation.
Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in
/etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply defies
logic that there would be no standard library to read this
configuration file in.
Anyone?
Shacha
There is no other explanation.
Just about every free program on Linux keeps a configuration file in
/etc. They all fairly much carry the same format. It simply defies logic
that there would be no standard library to read this configuration file in.
Anyone?
Shachar
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