Wim's Conf Proposal

hi all,

I like wim's conf proposal. Some points:

	-I would very much like to see no XML. Database would be _much_ better.
	-The basic path-keys are very good. They would be easy to catalog and 
they impose a little logical structure on the values
	-We could use damn-near the same code for string IDs if we chose to 
use them (more on that in a minute)
	-I propose to kill aliases until such time as we deem them necessary 
to the core.
	-I propose to kill the method "change()" and keep "set()".
	-I propose to kill the method "locate()" which seems to be 
file-specific.?
	-I propose to kill the method "value()" since it does the same thing 
as get()?
	-I propose to have set() throw exceptions if there are problems 
connecting or the value is bad.
	-I like manuel's idea to have 'levels' in a single table. (factory, 
workspace, user)
		-Do people believe "user" is a good idea? (We could allow conf to be 
used in runtime systems for pref storage - it's a perfect dictionary 
storage thing that could use SimpleEntity.
	-I propose to have _no_ preloading of configuration values - they 
should be fetched and cached by conf only when requested.

So basically I am proposing that conf use a 'dictionary' simpleEntity 
with very basic read/write methods that include simple validation.

I would like to see Locale use this same dictionary simpleEntity for 
translation services using string keys that look the same as conf. We 
_could_ allow aliases in the dictionary entity so that string keys 
could reference other string keys.

Do people agree with this?

_alex