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GConf - Default branch

Section: Unix

Added: Sun, Sep 19th 1999 21:08 UTC (8 years, 10 months ago)

Updated: Mon, Dec 31st 2007 10:30 UTC (6 months, 22 days ago)

About:
GConf is a "registry" system, a library applications can use to store key-value pairs persistently. It's written for GNOME, but it does not require GNOME or even X to work. Use outside GNOME is encouraged and will be supported.

Author:
Havoc Pennington <hp |at| redhat |dot| com> [contact developer]

Homepage:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
Tar/GZ:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/GConf/2.20/GConf-2.20.1.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/GConf/2.20/GConf-2.20.1.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://ftp.gnome.org/[..]OME/sources/GConf/2.20/GConf-2.20.1.news
Debian package:
http://packages.debian.org/gconf
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gconf/trunk/
Bug tracker:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/
Mailing list archive:
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list

Trove categories: [change]
[Development Status] 5 - Production/Stable
[Environment] X11 Applications
[Intended Audience] Developers
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Programming Language] C
[Topic] Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

» Rating: 8.12/10.00 (Rank N/A)
» Vitality: 0.04% (Rank 2871)
» Popularity: 2.03% (Rank 2527)

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Branches

Branch Version Last release License URLs

Default 2.20.1 31-Dec-2007 GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Articles referencing this project

Too Much Free Software
by Marius Andreiana , in Editorials
Sat, Mar 29th 2003 00:00
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Comments

[»] Flat files
by Havoc Pennington - Aug 10th 2000 01:34:01

GConf is simply an abstract API, it can use flat files as a backend.

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[»] Is this a good thing?
by Brian Akins - Jul 27th 2000 15:58:21

Shouldn't we encourage configuration to be stored in flat files whenever necessary?

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[»] Re: Is this a good thing?
by Captain Bunzo - Jul 24th 2001 02:04:06

> Shouldn't we encourage configuration to
> be stored in flat files whenever
> necessary? no. It is absolutely necessary in this day of computing to have various options for the storage of configuration data...

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