On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:45:04PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: >> Actually, I would find it significantly easier to borrow code from Wine >> to do registry parsing and run a tool against a Windows partition >> mounted read-only to extract the information we need, than I would to >> write a Windows application to do roughly the same thing. > Hum, yes, but that probably says more about > 1. the excellent capabilities of the Wine team > 2. lack of ability and willingness to write windows code on your part > than the elegance of the solution - IMHO. Feel free to demonstrate the elegance of your own Windows code, then. >>> Before you know, people will go back to Windows to change their IP >>> address in Linux because they don't know how to do it there. >> Well, since debconf is not a registry, that would be a little difficult, >> wouldn't it? > Well, I was thinking about horrible scenarios like, "you know, I > installed this Linux thing, and it used my network settings from Windows > fine, but now I can't find out how to change it, so I figured I could > change the settings in Windows and then reinstall Linux, so I did." There are some forms of idiocy that it's just not possible to proof against. <shrug> -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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