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Re:A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distr... by gwbas1c on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:31PM (#27806673)
Personally I like the Mac plist system the best. It just works, and it works so well that you never hear about it because no one ever complains about it!
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Re:A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distr... by fanf2 on Monday July 12, 2021 @03:36AM (#27807983)
There are at least three different formats for plist files, and the tools are differently broken depending on the format. There are some really odd cases like terminal colour settings which are stored in the plist as a pickled object, so you have to use the gui to adjust a colour rather than (say) using css syntax.
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Re:A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distr... by gwbas1c on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @11:19PM (#27829275)
No settings format can force a programmer to make good decisions. A Windows developer could put a .Net binary serialized object into a blob registry key.
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