RE: GNOME registry

["Joshua R. Prismon" <josh narf com>]

>Why can't we use some XML-like standard for the config files? I want 
>to be able editing everything with my old-school vi.

The entire point is that the end application doesn't care how we implement
it. I think the library should have some kind of plug in translator (integrate
in Linuxconf and COAS) as well as a few grow your own configuration
engines. 

The Design I have in my head is something like this:

[End User] -> [Gnome Application] \
                    [ Non-Gnome Application] \
					- [Corba/ld.so] Configuration Manager. 

[Configuration Manager - "Translator" - Sendmail
			| - "LDAP" Directory to a LinuxLDAP server.  
			| - "MDS" Directory (Microsoft Active Directory)
			| - XML Engine - (Layered)
				| - ".db" Database "registry-lite" configuration.
				| - Plain old Text Library.
			
So in many ways, it would be like PAM's layering.