Implement RegFlushKey
Robert van Herk
robert at robertvanherk.nl
Sun Dec 28 10:30:50 CST 2003
Mike Hearn wrote:
>On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 10:25, Lionel Ulmer wrote:
>
>
>>Yeah, but nothing beats editing a registry file with Emacs (which is a joy
>>to do when, for example, a damn game refuses to re-install because it
>>detects some keys in the registry from its last installation).
>>
>>
>
>Yeah, that's why I said I wasn't going to advocate it. I edit/view the
>registry using emacs all the time.
>
>Possibly one solution would be to have a binary cache used for loading
>and on shutdown the wineserver dumps it to the text version. On startup
>it compares the modification times of the binary and textual versions,
>and if the text version is newer (because it was edited by hand) it
>replaces the binary cache with it. That'd be a good compromise I think.
>
>Regardless at the moment wine startup time isn't a huge problem,
>certainly there are more pressing issues (like the lack of a good
>typelib compiler).
>
>
>
You wouldn't want to throw away the text version anyway, since then it
wouldn't be possible to debug your setup in case wine won't boot
anymore. I mean: when winecfg is done, you might get a chicken/egg
problem if you screwed up your configuration :-).
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