On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:54 AM, Charles Forsyth wrote:

>> The only drawback so far seems to be the fact that if one
>> needs flexibility, then every file becomes a subdirectory.
>> Not that it is scary or anything, but it smells too much
>> of resource forks (or may be I'm just too easily scared).
>
> it's the other way round: they ought to have represented
> collections of related data and metadata using directories
> instead of inventing rubbish like resource forks.

They sort-of-kind-of got there in Mac OS X with `application bundles'
that are just specially named directories with some canonical
contents.  It'll take another major systems change for them to wean
themselves off of resource forks entirely, I expect.

*chad