Neal D. Becker wrote:
Yes, here's the linux registry topic again. This project looks
interesting. Any comments?
http://registry.sourceforge.net/
One motivation that I didn't hear anyone mention:
It is difficult to add entries/edit a flat file. It is easy to add modify a
structure, such as a directory. This is becoming increasing used for
example, /etc/cron.daily. Package management is much easier this way.
There are many other examples like this.
Any new scheme should follow a model which includes this property. It is
(theoretically) possible to achieve the same semantics by other schemes
(not necessarily directories with files in a real filesystem). OTOH, I am
not advocating for inventing yet another virtual filesystem for this
purpose.