Open Source and Commercial Users of WinReg

[GiovanniDicanio]

I'd like to compile a list of open source and commercial users of this C++ WinReg library.

If anyone would like to contribute and is willing to share this information, please add that below.

Thank you.

[wolfv]

Hi @GiovanniDicanio we're using it in the mamba project

[GiovanniDicanio]

Hi @wolfv! Thank you very much for your comment and for opening the user list :) Much appreciated!

[wolfv]

PS: I'll package it for the conda-forge channel in the coming days. If you want to be a co-maintainer of the package, let me know. (It's a very low-effort job, especially since the code here seems very stable!).

[mattmcde78]

@GiovanniDicanio we're using it in MDaemon Technologies (https://mdaemon.com/) commercial SecurityGateway for Email project. Great work!

We are using UTF8 for strings in the code base. Adding interfaces that accept UTF8 strings (and converting internally to/from Unicode) would make our usage a bit cleaner. Perhaps a WINREG_USE_UTF8 preprocessor definition?

[GiovanniDicanio]

@mattmcde78 Thank you very much for sharing!

Your UTF-8 suggestion is interesting. Thinking a bit about it, always translating between external UTF-8 strings at the WinReg interface boundary with internal UTF-16 used by Windows API calls could add some overhead, especially for those using UTF-16 in their C++ code bases.
On the other hand, switching that behavior on or off via a preprocessor macro definition seems interesting and could avoid the risk of overhead previously mentioned. I'll think more about it.

Thanks again for sharing your usage and for this suggestion!

[GiovanniDicanio]

@mattmcde78 : I created a new issue #75 to talk about that. It would be great if you could try some of the current code and give me some feedback in that issue page. Thank you!