Re: GNOME universe

[Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>]

Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> OK.  paper.config is probably name-space pollution.

Thesis: ``Namespace pollution'' is good.

This is not windows where each package installs into Program Files and has its
own proprietary data that no other program can use. This is Unix where all
these files have open well-specified formats. If you have two Corba servers
they should use the same format data files and be fully interoperable. If you
have a paper configuration file every program should use it.

By choosing /etc/CORBA Gnome is planning for the future and being optimistic
about interoperability rather than taking the pragmatic easy approach of just
defining all these data files as internal proprietary files.

greg