Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)

Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by zaptheimpaler on Saturday July 30, 2022 @05:38AM (#32285489)

Do you happen to know Linus' "first rule of kernel development"?

"If a change results in user programs breaking, it's a bug in the kernel. We never EVER blame the user programs. How hard can this be to understand?" - from his famous rant [1]

So Linux prioritizes backwards compat as well. It would be insane for any project relied on by half the computing world not to. MS just throwing out their registry and rewriting it would probably break a million programs and possibly break literal billions of people's computers in some way. Its a universal problem - the more dependants any piece of code has, the harder it is to change.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by jollybean on Saturday July 30, 2022 @11:25AM (#32287519)

"It would be insane for any project relied on by half the computing world not to."

I think this is insane and narrow minded.

I suggest there should be 'eras' of version where things do change.

If they make OS changes, notify early, prepare basic materials, create 'auto-updaters' and allow a few years for change.

But it needs to be done.

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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by pjmlp on Saturday July 30, 2022 @06:58AM (#32285796)

Which is a reason no one has deep knowledge about all the ioctl variants out there on Linux, as new ones get introduced, sometimes to work around backwards compatibility guarantees.

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