On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Markus Raab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 02:25 schrieben Sie: > > > Do you have any comparisons of the advantage of using this instead of > > EET[1,2]? Enlightenment is using EET for a long time now and things > > just work, it's easy to use and performs well, does not depend on > > external libraries. > > Elektra is also easy to use and does not depend on external libraries. The > difference is that we realized that there is no perfect format for storing > configuration so we leave that decision out. We introduce a global namespace > for configuration in an operating system independent way. This allows a > programmer to identify keys without knowing where they are actually stored, > which could be EET, but also a configuration file, berkley db, the windows > registry,.. realized through backends. > > See http://www.libelektra.org/GetStartedMounting how you can set the key > system/filesystems/rootfs/type storing them into a filesys or in the > legacy /etc/fstab.
will look into more depth > > [1] http://wiki.enlightenment.org/index.php/Eet > > [2] http://www.enlightenment.org/viewvc/e17/libs/eet/ > > Sounds very nice, I will have a look at it. The disadvantage is that you > can't > read or edit that files. But it would certainly be a very good backend if you > need very fast reads. there are command line tools to convert this between binary and text format, this being a C-like struct syntax. -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri http://profusion.mobi Embedded Systems -------------------------------------- MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: gsbarbieri Mobile: +55 (81) 9927 0010 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
