Re: [Bluez-devel] D-Bus interfaces

[Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>]

Marcel,

mån 2004-02-09 klockan 14.01 skrev Marcel Holtmann:
> this is only true if the plain file itself is designed in somekind of
> database format like /etc/passwd, but for hcid.conf that is not
> acceptable. The format of hcid.conf is more flexible and if a user has
> to edit this file, I don't wanna allow a program do edit it as well and
> introduce its own format style.

Why is the formating style a problem?

> So we have to separate some settings.

Is the formating style issue the main reason for introducing a binary
database instead of plain text?

> If we want a clean interface for the configuration stuff that is not
> covered by the HCI specification (like name cache etc.) we must go
> through these interface in all cases, because the hcid implementation is
> replaceable and the storage format also.

It would be great to have file storage documented and part of the interface 
as well. Forcing specialized tools isn't flexible and user/admin friendly.

Fredrik