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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: A better configuration system - Was: Re: Gconf2
From:       David Findlay <david () davsoft ! com ! au>
Date:       2003-08-13 10:29:24
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> No, but if you want to implement incremental changes and rollbacks, you'll
> end up implementing something like cvs or subversion anyway (and suffer
> quite a bit in the process because this kind of stuff is very hard to get
> right). So yes, such a system will have to use rcs/cvs/subversion/whatever,
> the problem will "just" be to hide it.

It doesn't need to be CVS though. All it needs is a log of what was changed 
when, then you just replay the log in reverse to rollback. That shouldn't be 
hard to do. Thanks,

David

- -- 
It's not that engineers are boring people, we just get excited about boring 
things.
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