--- Francois Gouget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Dustin Navea wrote: > [...] > > Not sure how possible this is or if it has already been thought of just > let > > me know, but what about loading the config into memory and having wine > make > > it look like the registry while loaded (ie for windows regedit). > > I believe Wine already does somethin like this, but maybe not. > > > [...] > > wine can do > > the processing of both the registry and the config, and then when it is > time > > to save the changes done in regedit, wine sorts it out between what needs > to > > be written to the actual registry and what needs to be written to the > config > > file. > > But in any case, this is where you hit problems. When loading the > registry or the configuration, Wine simply ignores the comments. And > when saving the changes Wine rewrites the registry file from scratch. If > we do the same for the configuration file it means we loose all the > comments, making it pointless to put them in in the first place...
hmm, I thought that that was why we have the saveonlyupdatedkeys option was to have it only write the keys whose values had changed.. I guess I was mistaken then. How come we rewrite the entire registry, and not just the new/changed data? It seems to me like that would be a CPU cycle killer when it comes to writing that sort of stuff, if the registry is any more than like (i guess?) 10 megs > Of course we could have a special case for the configuration file so > that we keep the comments in memory, maybe also keep the file layout and > then merge the changes when we save. But that means using a different > codebase for the settings and for the registry which I believe is the > opposite of what we want to do by moving the settings to the registry. What if it were to read the comments into a/some comments variable/s and then treat the config file as part of the registry? Or would that still be too much of a different codebase? ===== -- Dustin Navea Minor Contributor, http://www.winehq.com Bugzilla Janitor, http://bugs.winehq.com Network Admin, irc://irc.blynk.net (down) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
