Le dimanche 02 avril 2006 à 04:04 -0700, Shane Stixrud a écrit :
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> But why is the gdm conf file such crap ? Is this because gdm writers had
> not lots of advanced configuration file libs at their disposition ?
>
> No
>
> It's because they consider :
> 1. the conf file is none of the user business
> 2. as a result little thought went in key naming
> 3. and even worse the keys themselves are not stable from release to
> release
>
> How is elektra going to help with this ?
It should be obvious having read
http://www.libelektra.org. Anyways with
a hierarchical key/value system like Elektra the solution is simple.
bzzt. hierarchical was already available when gconf was written (either
by using XML of java-like hierarchical properties)
That is was not used is not a conf lib problem
--
Nicolas Mailhot