* David Leimbach <[email protected]> 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 cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: [email protected] mobile: +49 174 7066481 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
