I think this project is more directly comparable to Augeas (http://augeas.net/ http://augeas.net/). The most common criticism of the Windows Registry is that i

I think this project is more directly comparable to Augeas (http://augeas.net/ http://augeas.net/). The most common criticism of the Windows Registry is that it is a per-user/per-machine database stored in an opaque format, thus making it harder than necessary to manipulate or version the data for individual applications. On the other hand, this project and Augeas focus on providing means to read and manipulate text-based configuration files that ensure the file contents' integrity is preserved. They do it by parsing the text into a tree first and serializing the tree afterwards. This lets you keep your individual configuration files as small as you wish and easy enough to version and compare.