From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <4A07098C-633B-451A-8EB0-A5F24A948243@mit.edu> From: Chad Brown To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-5-663139966 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:05:12 -0700 Subject: Re: [9fans] Different representations of the same Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0c3ee128-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --Apple-Mail-5-663139966 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --Apple-Mail-5-663139966 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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&= nbsp;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

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