[Gpephone-devel] libsettings

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

YU Yijun RD-ILAB-PEK schrieb:
> May we consider to reuse Global setting of Access Hiker Application Framework
> here?  It has similar functionalities with similar APIs, but more features. I
> think there is no reason to fork a new component with the same
> functionalities in the open source community.

I wouldn't call this a fork - its not based on the same source. Its an
alternative... but you are right, we should take a look and check if we can make
use of it.

> Hiker Application Framework Global setting has a full featured APIs,
> including: 1. APIs to create and delete a node 2. APIs to get values of
> different data types 3. APIs to get keys of different data types (Not only
> string type) 4. APIs to set notification 5. APIs to iterate keys

The API looks quite interesting and the source not too bad. But there are some
drawbacks:
- It is tied up to their IPC mechanism and SQLFS.
- They use a different license (MPL) which is not really bad but we would add a
new license to our stack.
- We should check why thes use glib but no glib data types and string handling
functions.

Greetings

Florian



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