Re: Multisync configuration storage in 0.90 and beyond

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, David A. Desrosiers wrote:

> 
> > GConf currently requires GTK+ and ORBit. I agree that having these
> > additional libraries is a downside of using GConf.
> 
> 	gtk requires the following:
> 	--------------------------
> 	libgtk1.2-common
> 	libc6
> 	libglib1.2
> 	xlibs
> 
> 	Orbit requires the following:
> 	----------------------------
> 	libglib2.0-0
> 	libidl0
> 	libpopt0
> 
> 	libxml requires the following:
> 	-----------------------------
> 	libc6
> 	zlib1g

Right, point taken. GConf requires more external dependencies, as I said.

> 
> > If we do an XML configuration file then libxml2 is pretty much dependency
> > free and it will be more flexible, at the cost of more work for the
> > implementation.
> 
> 	And with the added benefit that *ANY OTHER XML PARSER* can be used
> to read, edit, manipulate, and most-importantly, _integrate_ the data stored
> within it. This includes C, Perl, Python and otherwise.

This is a good point as well.

Tom




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