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Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check
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olafBuddenhagen |
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Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check |
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Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:45:25 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:27:55PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> And wouldn't this option of accessing a file in two ways be an ideal
> candidate
> for namespace based translator selection?
>
> An example:
>
> $ ls blah,,dir/
> $ nano blah,,xml
Certainly :-)
I wonder though whether it wouldn't be useful also to simply allow
opening a directory node as a file... This won't always work -- in some
situations the explicit naming is really necessary, or at least clearer;
but it seems to me that the directory/file duality could work well
enough in many cases.
The main problem I see here is deciding on the standard format for
flattened directories -- some will want XML, some will want s-expr...
Perhaps it's better to always explicitely specify it after all.
> Btw. the main idea about containers was to reduce the metadata for
> each single file,
Yes, I understand that -- and the metadata redundancy is one of the
reasons why I said that using fine-grained directory structures without
some container mechanism would be too inefficient... Guess I wasn't
clear enough.
-antrik-
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/11/02
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/11/02
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/11/02
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, olafBuddenhagen, 2008/11/12
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, olafBuddenhagen, 2008/11/12
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, olafBuddenhagen, 2008/11/12
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, Michal Suchanek, 2008/11/13
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/11/13
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, Michal Suchanek, 2008/11/13
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/11/13
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, Michal Suchanek, 2008/11/13
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, Arne Babenhauserheide, 2008/11/13
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, Michal Suchanek, 2008/11/13
- Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check, olafBuddenhagen, 2008/11/19