Re: [9fans] Binary format

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* David Leimbach <leimy2k@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 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


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