[GD-General] Registry/CFP/Files (WAS: A portable preferences library)

[Garett B. <gt...@st...>]

// Everyone seems like they have to write their own
// portable preferences/registry wrapper...
// It is designed to be minimal, and will wrap around
// the Windows registry; CFPreferences on MacOS/OS X;
// and the standard file system on Linux.


Brian and others,

	I'm curious why you would want to use the Windows Registry or MacOS CFPrefs
when you could just use the file system on all platforms?  What is the
advantage of using the Operating System's configuration database?  Might you
at least make a file-system-only implementation option on each platform?

	Before Win2K/XP, I considered registry-based configuration a huge
disadvantage, since it was exceptionally difficult to persist settings if
you needed to reinstall the OS.  It was always nice to find that many non-MS
apps still used .ini-file-esque settings and would just automagically work
after a reinstall.

Regards,
Garett Bass
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