Comments on: Hatred of the Gnome registry http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/2005/11/hatred-of-the-gnome-registry/ Ghworg's wibblings and geek projects. Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:36:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nicholas http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/2005/11/hatred-of-the-gnome-registry/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Nicholas Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:01:03 +0000 http://blog.trollgod.org.uk/?p=35#comment-272 I more or less agree. I don't know if the registry is the worst idea Microsoft ever came up with (with so many bad ideas I don't even know how to begin to choose the worst) but it's clearly a big mistake and one of the things that makes Windows as poor as it is. So why copy it? And using XML is just adding insult to injury. There's nothing wrong with the conf/rc file system. It could be improved with a standard file format/API for accessing it but "if it ain't broke don't fix it". I more or less agree. I don’t know if the registry is the worst idea Microsoft ever came up with (with so many bad ideas I don’t even know how to begin to choose the worst) but it’s clearly a big mistake and one of the things that makes Windows as poor as it is. So why copy it? And using XML is just adding insult to injury.

There’s nothing wrong with the conf/rc file system. It could be improved with a standard file format/API for accessing it but “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”.

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