Re: [9fans] Binary format

[Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>]

On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:

> * 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 just wouldnt suggest XML
>
>> 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
More features is better, with no concern about stability or
useability...
>
>
> cu
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