On Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 07:36:17 PDT Alexander Churanov wrote:
2010/4/9 Leinier Cruz Salfran <salfrancl.lis...@gmail.com>
i want to ask you one thing: can you make the 'pkg_install' suite
reusable .. means install 'libinstall.a' as a shared object in order
to make it reusable by others devs
Hi Leinier,
I'd like to add my 50 cents. From my point of view, the true UNIX way is
re-using whole programs. This provides unbelievable isolation and
correctness. If you don't want to fork myriads of processes each second,
then, it's, probably, better to ask for pipe mode of pkg_* tools. For
example, aspell works that way. You start a process, write commands and
queries and read results.
+1
It was a watershed moment in my programming career when I realized that
the bubbles on those DFD charts we used to use for structured design
could be whole processes and not just functions in a single, monolithic
program.
Suddenly everything the structured design folks were saying about
re-use, encapsulation, loose coupling, module cohesion, etc. made a lot
more sense when viewed from the perspective of simple Unix utilities
communicating with plain text via pipes.
We should encourage that approach as a default, and only put things into
binary libraries when forced to by performance considerations.
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