[Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 19 June 2010 10:45, Sven Barth wrote:
>
> Nevertheless the Registry is not that bad if you think about it: it's an
> data storage system that is provided by the operating system itself and thus
> available to all applications running on it.

Our mileage clearly varies a lot. The registry is a mess. Fully of
crap, often corrupt, easy to corrupt and lots of "uninstalled
application" information is left there to rot ever though the app is
not on the system any more.

> Another nice thing are permissions: You can - at least on NT+ systems - set
> the permissions for single keys (not values though) for specific users and
> groups.

Yeah, this has been around in *nix systems for 30+ years using text
config files and user/group/world permissions. :-)

> If your application has the correct priviledges you can also load and unload
> private Hive-files (the Registry is saved in such files). You can use that
> for example to make your application portable:

Umm, using a ini file stored in a global location for system wide
setup, but also allow the application to see if a ini file is in the
same directory as the executable also makes it instantly  "portable"
(like running from flash drives). Been doing this for years with
Windows and Linux software - always using INI files.


-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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