Re: What are the other options against Zope?

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

	The Windows registry is "a maze of twisty little passages, all
alike" <G>

ITYM "a maze of twisty little passeges, {058C1536-2201-11D2-BFC1-00805F858323}"

	The registry a cryptic, bloated, system by which M$ can hide
details about anything they want... Instead of having separate .INI
files scattered about.

A registry, in general, is a decent idea. It's more robust and more permanent than environment variables, and the centralization is better than INI files scattered about (probably). The problem is that the Windows Registry has passed beyond all mortal ken, probably sometime around when they started indexing things by GUID, losing any hierarchy based on application.

That, and the file format definitely isn't robust to bit-rot that happened too often on FAT16/32 filesystems.
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