On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weig...@metux.de> wrote:
* David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote:
A lot of "plug in" functionality you'll find on other platforms
that requires a shared library approach can be implemented via
a file system service technique.
Of course, and I would really like to see that approach in the GNU
world too (actually, I already did that in some projects). But it's
really not easy to convice collegues or clients to this approach
(often they dont even understand the concept of modularity - sad,
but true).
Even synthetic filesystems are good for moving bigger things to their
own services, there're many cases where that wouldnt make sense, for
example parsers. I doubt you'd really suggest putting an XML parser
to its own filesystem for real productional use ;-p (having such a
thing surely is a good idea for some cases, but for most cases an
library would most likely be much easier and efficient.
I just wouldnt suggest XML
I don't know why everyone doesn't want to build software this way.
Well, that's probably a psychological/social phenomenon. Maybe some
"bigger is better" ideology ? ;-o
More features is better, with no concern about stability or
useability...
cu
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