<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> /etc is about all the complexity of registry I can cope with, thank you.<br><br>Just go to any software store and see how many products are offered for
<br>sale that purport to "fix" registry problems.<br><br>Look at all the web sites offering a "free" registry scan. Of course<br>they always find *something* wrong, and want $$$ to "repair" it.
<br><br>The Registry is a great thing,if you are a software vendor.<br></blockquote></div><br>Well, this is getting a bit afield, but...<br><br>Don't mistake the Windows registry implementation with the concept, itself, of a centralized, consistent (in the sense that it's a consistent format with a known layout) configuration database. IMHO, the concept isn't necessarily a bad one. The Windows implementation of it, however... well, that's another story entirely. :)
<br><br>Personally, I'd love to do away with the myriad config files and formats littered all over my machine. Heck, it could be something as simple as an API that layered over a standard filesystem, producing text-based configuration files of a known format, using a well-understood directory structure. This makes things user-editable, scalable, consistent, and transparent. It'll never happen, but it's a nice dream. :)
<br><br>Brett.<br>