RE: GNOME registry

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

I would be willing to try (try being the word :)    ) to write the base
library.
The lowest level language I know is c++, but I have a 
teach yourself C in 24 days, a Linux programmer's reference book, and a
willingness to learn / try. Besides, How different can C and C++ be. (famous
last words). The base library should be written in C. I can also add
wrappers for C++.

If I am to start this, I need to have a basic understanding of what
programmers want in a config library.

(also some help would be appreciated programming as well. :)   )


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Joshua R. Prismon [SMTP:josh@narf.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 31, 1998 12:22 PM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	RE: GNOME registry
> 
> At 02:29 PM 12/31/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >It would be handy to be able to configure everything from one location.
> >To this end, I would love to have something like a control-center capplet
> >to configure them someday. But Apache, sendmail, and all the other
> >programs we're used to using already have standard locations for storing
> >their data and your chances of persuading the authors or maintainers of
> >those to optionally store their data in the GNOME registry is 0% or very
> >close. =)
> >I think making requests such as these from GNOME is asking too much.
> >However, making a GNOMEified configuration program or capplet or
> something
> >would be cool. I don't know enough about either sendmail or Apache
> >configuration to even be useful in helping something like that, but if
> you
> >do I'm sure it would be appreciated by many.
> 
> If you build it (and do a good hob of it). They will come. 
> Worse comes to worse, we should be able to add 
> later services (ie, a specific way to look at configuration,
> or a translate) if we handle th abstration right. 
> 
> 
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