From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jul 12 19:13:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9999D37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:13:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c001.snv.cp.net (h000.c001.snv.cp.net [209.228.32.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03F6843E64 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:13:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kutulu@kutulu.org) Received: (cpmta 18160 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2002 19:13:24 -0700 Received: from 68.50.102.254 (HELO KutuluWare) by smtp.register-admin.com (209.228.32.114) with SMTP; 12 Jul 2002 19:13:24 -0700 X-Sent: 13 Jul 2002 02:13:24 GMT Message-ID: <002401c22a12$57659c10$fe663244@KutuluWare> From: "Kutulu" To: References: <200207120055.g6C0tbpQ084565@dotar.thuvia.org> <3D2F5602.9039F5DE@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 22:09:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Lambert" Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 6:19 PM > At this point, the best approach is probably a registry. > > I personally don't know if I'm ready to fight the "Not Invented Here" > war that trying to implement a registry entails. As an idea that > came from Windows, there is a gut-level reaction among many UNIX > people that tries to pretend that engineers employed by Microsoft > (or, sometimes, even RedHat) could not possibly have a good idea on > their own, or solve a problem in a way that was not already thought > of by themselves. While I agree in general with this logic (that just because it's Microsoft's idea doesn't automatically make it bad), even THEY eventually concluded that the registry was a really bad way to manage a centralized software "package" database (COM components), and are moving towards a more directory-based, localized package management system with XP/.NET. I'm not yet fully versed on the whole .NET Manifest structure but it basically uses an XML file, located alongside the binaries I beleive, to describe everything Windows needs to know about an installed application/component/ whatever. Of course, history would indicate they'll discover this is a really bad idea by 2004 and can it, so who knows. --K To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message