Re: [9fans] Interested in improving networking in Plan 9

[Robert Raschke <rtrlists@googlemail.com>]

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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Bakul Shah
<bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com<bakul%2Bplan9@bitblocks.com>
> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:33:13 CDT Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
>  wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Bakul Shah<bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com<bakul%2Bplan9@bitblocks.com>>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > An intriguing idea that can point toward a synth fs interface
> > > to a dbms or search results.... But I don't think this would
> > > be a lightweight interface.
> > >
> >
> > The fact that its not immediately clear is what makes it a good
> > research topic.  It will likely take several iterations to identify a
> > "best fit" interface with the likely result that multiple
> > interfaces/views are required.  I think there are precious little
> > information on synthetic file system design, given its continuing
> > popularity in the non-Plan-9 world, we could use more published
> > wisdom/experiences from the evolution of various file-system based
> > interfaces.
>
> Oh I don't know.... Shoehorning a DB interface into a FS
> interface doesn't feel right but stranger things have
> happened.
>
>
There are some folk about who are working on a distributed spreadsheet (
hypernumbers.com, there used to be a trial system up and lots of documents,
but I'm not sure where that all went, and I can't be bothereed signing up
just now, they're presenting at ICFP CUFP on Friday, so the company/project
should still be properly alive).

Anyway, the idea they've got is that every cell in a spreadsheet has a URL
and you can reference and use cells across a distributed space. Interesting
idea, but I'm not entirely sure what to do with it, being
spreadsheet-challenged myself.

Robby

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