[Pipet Devel] GConf, Loci, pickles, etc.

[J.W. Bizzaro]

deanne at density.biop.umich.edu wrote:
> 
> Don't know if this is useful or if you know about it, but here's a link to
> a description of GConf, a library that is meant to "leapfrog" over the
> concept of a "Registry". It seems to have some useful features and it
> might be nice to think about possibly going into compliance with it
> w/piper if we are pretty well gnomified.
> 
> http://developer.gnome.org/feature/current/index.html

This was bounced around on the Loci list in yonder days gone past, but I
haven't heard from Jarl or Jean-Marc.  Basically, there were many shrills on
the other list about using anything that resembled the M$ regi$try.

Also, I will continue to stress that we don't want a dependency on a desktop
system for the CORE of Piper.  I hope that Piper can be installed, configured
and ran without the REQUIREMENT of a GUI.  Using GConf for the Gnome UI
(Pied/Piper) is fine with me, just not for everything else.

Cheers.
Jeff
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