[Mono-list] Registry, text or binary?

[Simon Waite]

I advocate the pluggable approach.

That way if the admin wants to have mono sandboxed to 'ini' style
flat files, then it's possible. I advocate flat files - it's not
as if there will be huge amounts of data stored ... or will there be?

Suggestions
ini files
xml files
berkley db
... other


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dietmar Maurer" <dietmar@ximian.com>
To: <everaldo.canuto@bol.com.br>
Cc: "Mono List" <mono-list@ximian.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Mono-list] Registry, text or binary?


> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 17:22, Everaldo Canuto wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I start a implementation of Registry Classes on Linux.
> > For emulate a WinRegistry classes on Linux I think to save public data 
> > in the file /etc/system.reg and a private data on /home/user/.user.reg
> > My problem is to decide which format to use to save data.
> > Text file or binary file? If binary, What type of algoritimo to use?
> 
> Simply make the backend pluggable ;-) It would be then possible for the
> user/admin to select the backend. Both gconf and bonobo-conf uses such
> pluggable approach.  
> 
> The nice thing is that we now have "interfaces" in C#, so its easy to
> define/implement such plug-ins.
> 
> - Dietmar
> 
> 
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