Re: Multisync configuration storage in 0.90 and beyond

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 21:56, Alex Perez wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Tom Foottit wrote:
> 
> > After some discussion on IRC, we wanted to solicit opinions on how we
> > are going to do storage of the configuration of the sync engine (and the
> > plugins) for 0.90.
> > 
> > Right now we have configuration stored in:
> > * GConf
> > * XML Files
> Well, if you're going to go with XML-RPC (which persionally I'd rather see 
> over D-BUS, which has fewer implementations), I'd say use XML for 
> configuration files too, just for consistency.

I did some tests with bot xmlrpc and dbus and i liked dbus a lot more
because:
- it offers authentication (probably needed for multiuser enviroment)
- it has less overhead then xmlrpc
- we can choose wether we want to use sockets, unix sockets or the
session buses.
- it will be used by (at least) kde 4.0 (afaik)
- we can filter on messages
- we can use the activation framework for the plugins
- we get disconnect messages when clients drops
- good integration with glib

The only real downsides i see with dbus are:
- it is not ported atm (but it will be at least according to havoc)
- it is not completly stable yet

> > * Basic text (i.e. not XML) 
> This is actually what I prefer, but everyone seems to want something else 
> these days.

This is probably because parsing text files yourself is really a bad
idea...
> > 
> > We need to standardize on something going forward. I am not opposed to
> > GConf, but I would like to hear some other opinions (besides "GConf is
> > like the registry") on which format we should use for storing
> > configuration going forward.
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > 
> > 
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