From: Brantley Coile <bwc@borf.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Installed Plan 9, now what?
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:23:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oprzxhgzqrtsux9g@smtp.borf.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031209183353.GA5257@sigint.cs.purdue.edu>
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:33:53 -0500, <splite@purdue.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:54:45PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
>> But, what's a better alternative? I'm all eyes.
>
> The Windows registry? *ducks*
>
> I have to agree with Charles and Geoff. The only thing .local files buy
> you is overwrite protection, which is already provided by pull. You
> still
> have to check that your overrides in .local are valid. Is there a way
> around that problem that doesn't involve Star Trek-type AI or mind
> reading?
>
> Ultimately, it's the price one pays for the flexibility of expressing
> configuration info as shell scripts instead of a database (or registry)
> of predetermined, paramaterized, versioned configuration variables.
>
No no no no no no no no NOOOOOOO!
(It had to be expressed in the most direct manner possible.)
It was good that MS went the way of a central registry. We now
know for sure that it's a very bad idea.
Brantley
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-09 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-08 12:48 David Presotto
2003-12-08 15:10 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-12-08 16:21 ` David Presotto
2003-12-08 19:30 ` Dan Cross
2003-12-08 21:14 ` david presotto
2003-12-08 22:20 ` Dan Cross
2003-12-09 0:55 ` David Presotto
2003-12-09 1:20 ` Russ Cox
2003-12-09 1:29 ` Dan Cross
2003-12-09 1:36 ` Russ Cox
2003-12-09 3:00 ` Dan Cross
2003-12-09 4:02 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-12-09 3:44 ` mirtchov
2003-12-09 4:10 ` Scott Schwartz
2003-12-07 9:59 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-12-07 10:28 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-12-09 4:33 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-12-09 4:54 ` Dan Cross
2003-12-09 7:47 ` okamoto
2003-12-09 11:23 ` a
2003-12-09 12:12 ` boyd, rounin
2003-12-09 18:33 ` splite
2003-12-09 19:23 ` Brantley Coile [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-09 7:55 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2003-12-09 13:49 ` David Presotto
2003-12-08 11:36 Tiit Lankots
2003-12-08 14:51 ` ron minnich
2003-12-08 15:00 ` Russ Cox
2003-12-08 10:08 Sujan Gautam
2003-12-08 13:53 ` mirtchov
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