Re: [Firebird-devel] Usage of Firebird Registry Keys

[Paul R. <pr...@ib...>]

On Friday 27 February 2004 19:49, Olivier Mascia wrote:
>
> My opinion is that it would probably be much logical to define your own
> key, outside of the "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Firebird Project" hierarchy.
>

The only purpose of "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Firebird Project\ThirdParty" as far as 
I can see, would be for one-off utilities to store their settings in a 
central location. The alternative is for each to create a new "HKLM
\SOFTWARE\Supplier" key. In Achim's case this is probably more than is 
required, although it is technically the right way to do things.

Otherwise, I can't see how tools would benefit from a central registry 
location. Why would a tool want to know about other tools, or read their 
settings? If there is a real need here then that need should be 
considered and dealt with in a consistent manner by the project. Reading 
and writing to the registry would only be a minor part of this.


Paul
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