Re: So what's happening ?? I working on a survery of work and results

[Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>]

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 Ben_Knauss@cch.com wrote:

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> microsoft highly recommends the registry for configuration data.

Not exactly.

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> as far as portability, the windows port wont run on any other platform as
> it is... seems like a mute issue.

It is the same exact codebase except for the differences in the places
required to make it run.  Changing the configuration semantics introduces
a needless incompatibility, in addition to  annoying a lot of people who
weren't tricked by the registry marketiods and who like being able to do
useful things.

You can make whatever changes you want, but I can say right now that I
don't think people are too likely to support their inclusion in the main
source tree.

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> borud@guardian.no on 08/31/98 02:35:40 PM
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> Subject:  Re: So what's happening ?? I working on a survery of work and
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> [Marc Slemko]
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> | Bad idea.
> also, this does not encourage portability.  I don't want to be a party
> pooper, but Marc is right.
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