[Mono-list] Registry, text or binary?

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> >>>http://soldc.sun.com/ntmigration/nttech/win32emulation.html
> >>>   ... not sure about the license though
> 
> Here it is :
> 
> 
> " Copyright (c) 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All  Rights Reserved.

The license looks good and compatible with Mono.  If this has a complete
implementation of the Registry code, this is the shortest path.  We only
implement the code once (And we get to test it with Win32) and then
reuse that in Linux.

That being said, the concept of the Registry does not exist in that form
on Unix, so it is of limited use for Unix users, it will only be useful
to allow applications to save/retrieve values from the registry as a
configuration system.

For real configuration, you want something along the lines of the
ConfigDatabase interface that Dietmar did and a generic mechanism to
activate objects (the moniker system ;-)

Miguel