Registry for Samba

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 01:17:01PM -0300, Avi Alkalay wrote:
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> I'd like to propose Linux Registry (http://registry.sf.net) for Samba. It is an alternative back-end for text configuration files.
> 
> Making Samba use a registry, makes its configuration more easily accessible (from a program perspective), and integration between other software and Samba more fluent.
> 
> The Registry tries to provide an universal, hierarchical infrastructure and name space to access configuration parameters as key-value pairs. This way any software can read/save its configuration/state using a consistent API. 

I'm not averse to a patch to allow this to be selected. I'm probably too
busy to write the code myself however...

Jeremy.