Re: [9fans] Python filesystem

[Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:08:30AM +0000, John Murdie wrote:
>
> And very, very, retro, and contrary to the Unix (and Plan 9)
> `philosophy' of putting commonly-required facilities in (just) one
> place. If you did the above, wouldn't you have to add all the non-CVS
> facilities of a shell to CVS (and to everything else you turned into a
> shell)?
>
A valid point, but one that may apply to shared objects too  :-)
:-)  :-)

My intention was to cause the shell to build a namespace with the
necessary (and only the necessary) tools in place.  Those that are
unique to the shell would be built (in a funny sense) into the
shell and "exported" (that's an interesting solution to the lack
of private environment variables in rc - just don't add them to
/env, which means serving /env within the shell, doesn't it?) into
the namespace as appropriate.

I'm kind of looking for seamlessness between the shell and the
namespace and, for the sake of protection, limiting the namespace
to specific instances of modules that may have been sanitised for
the purpose.  Or extended, for that matter.

I like embedded languages and my limited efforts with the namespace
library made me think on how best to combine embedding with the
more practical aspects of a shell and the environment it provides.
But it is just rambles, right now.

++L