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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: A better configuration system - Was: Re: Gconf2
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiagom () wanadoo ! fr>
Date:       2003-08-13 11:34:49
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David Findlay wrote:
>> 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,

Ok, so it all comes down to this:

1) KConfig works quite nicely. No need to change it.

2) Configuration browsers (KConfEdit) is already being worked on, with the 
current KConfig.

3) history and rollback would be nice. All that you have to do is implement a 
new backend for KConfig.

So, as someone has already suggested, it's up to you to start coding this new 
backend.

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