Re: GUADEC Hacking

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 19:30 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> 
> As GConf supports pluggable backends now, I wouldn't be surprised if a
> prototype database backend could be hacked up in a day.
> 
> Why wait for DConf (assuming it actually fixes the other problems and
> doesn't end up being another system which has no advantage over the DBus
> port of GConf) when GConf has the framework needed now?

I would say the mmap cache is a better idea, because it's kind of a
complicated headache and a half to migrate to a new config format and we
should try to avoid it until we're getting larger advantages such as a
shared config system that fixes some of the gconf flaws.

Havoc