Linked by Adam S on Sun 6th Apr 2003 17:18 UTC
This is my reaction to Tsu Dho Nimh's "Migrating to Linux not easy for Windows users" featured on Linuxworld.com recently. It's not a response, I'm not challenging his opinions, which I feel are not only valid, but mostly right, it's just a reaction.
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> Why are text files easier to read compared to a mishmash of text, hex, and undocumented flags? Are you being funny?
Yes, like Linux config files are not the slightest bit cryptic and everything in the registry is pure hex.
This is exactly the kind of bullsh*t I'm talking about.
> programmers or users cannot put comments in the registry to explain what a setting does.
True, but text files, like registry should be last resort.
> You cannot comment out sections of the registry to make them inactive while still keeping them available if you want to re-enable them at a later date.
But you can rename keys, same effect.
> All the configuration of an app is in a single file, not scattered around the registry. It's more obvious for example if I want to change the configuration of syslog to edit syslog.conf than to try and find out where all it's compenents might be in the registry.
I've not found one app where it's settings are scattered around the registry. Whereas the unix way is /usr/share/app/appconf or possibly /usr/local/share/appconf or maybe /opt/share/app/appconf