Subject: Re: proplib changes
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/26/2007 12:57:41
On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 22:46 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Jared D. McNeill skrev:
> > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 12:02 +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> >> So, what when my system is really borked, and I can't get proplib to 
> >> work? I guess I'm pretty toast then? (Getting systems into a 
> >> semi-catastrophic state have happened to me a few times.)
> > 
> > Are you joking?
> 
> No. I have had times when I have had to modify or overwrite 
> configuration files in systems where almost nothing have been working as 
> it should.
> The idea that you'll have a tool converting from some tricky format into 
> something human readable and editable, which you then edit, and then it 
> gets converted back basically requires that some bits of the system is 
> working right, or the answer will be "reinstall the system, please".

Have you ever opened one of our plist files with a text editor before?
Give me a break.

Cheers,
Jared