GConf 0.1

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

Are you a Windows system administrator? Do you hate the registry? This
project is your chance to have something better on free Unices. Patches
and suggestions now, or no whining later. :-)

This is the first release of GConf, which is a "registry" sort of system.
That is, it is a library applications can use to store key-value pairs
persistently.

Mini-FAQ:
 Q: does GConf destroy my ability to hand-edit config files?
 A: No, it has pluggable data storage backends
 Q: can the GConf database be corrupted?
 A: depends on the backend
 Q: have you seen ACAP, libproplist, LDAP, etc.?
 A: those could be GConf backends, please write the backend glue :-)

GConf is GNOME-independent, though it does require glib, ORBit, and the
popt option parsing library. Also, libxml is required because right now
only the XML backend exists, so without libxml GConf won't do anything.

GConf comes with some basic documentation in doc/gconf.sgml which 
describes the library in more detail.

This release is highly alpha and not yet in production use. The client
interface should be close-to-stable though. I'm looking for people writing
alpha apps to try out GConf and report bugs. Please report bugs
to http://bugs.gnome.org, using package name "gconf" - instructions are 
on that page.

I'd also like design suggestions, but please read the docs and look over
at least the header files first so you know what's going on.

New backends or language bindings would be nice contributions too.

Obtain GConf from:

  ftp://ftp.gnome.org:/pub/GNOME/sources/GConf/GConf-0.1.tar.gz

Thanks,
Havoc