[cap-talk] How desirable / feasible is a persistent OCAP language?

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 24/07/2008, at 22.41, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:

>On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 08:34 +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
>> Neither the registry nor etc/config have provision to
>> maintain, or even define, internal consistency.
>
>I agree with this statement. That said, the registry is better
>than /etc/config (/etc/sysconfig?), because:
>
>  1. It has a well-defined name space.
>  2. It has a schema for well-formedness. That is not the same
>     as consistency, but it is a step in the right direction.

Experience with the windows registry shows that a system registry can grow
up to many many megabytes, which affects directly the startup time and
other registry operations.
A database whould be a better option.


val