RE: GNOME registry

[Rene Mayrhofer <rmayr vianova at>]

>What we would win with this is that you can write the actual config-files
>all in XML. 
>Than you can convert everything to the actual (old-fashioned) config files
>which are now still used by all programs. This way we could have both
>the old config system and a totally new one (with a CORBA interface to an
>XML database) living together. 
>And if a programmer wants ... he can simply add support for this totally new,
>shiny XML-api and enjoy the luxe of not having to think of his own
>config-file-format.
I would be interested in details (mainly the API) and I also would like to
assist in implementing a library. I think the API should consist of normal
(ANSI C) API functions and a CORBA interface. Maybe we could write up an
API proposal.

Rene