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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: A better configuration system - Was: Re: Gconf2
From:       Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach () wp ! pl>
Date:       2003-08-13 13:40:42
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 08:29:24PM +1000, David Findlay wrote:
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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,

OTOH that wouldn't be bad to have system wide CVS for _all_ files and
nice front end for managing it. In this way config files would be only
a part of it - and small part.

m.
 
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