On 08/28/08 11:59, Michael Meeks wrote:
        The last sticking point for something like that is the monolithic
services.rdb build; I hate small scattered files - but, IMHO there is a
good argument for a very small, simple text file per module (or group of
modules) that expresses the service info in a simple and more efficient
fashion; and that (if necessary) can be catted together. Personally I
find this sort of thing rather amusing (in a black sort of a way):

$ regview services.rdb > services.txt # ...
$ ls -lh services.*
-r--r--r-- 1 michael users 2.4M 2008-08-28 10:30 services.rdb
-r--r--r-- 1 michael users 540K 2008-08-28 10:30 services.rdb.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 michael users 638K 2008-08-28 10:31 services.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 michael users  46K 2008-08-28 10:31 services.txt.gz

        And of course - this is after the not-merged-up-stream size
optimisations we do in store/ - the up-stream wastage is far worse here.
It would be far nicer & smaller to have components register themselves
via a simple flat text file IMHO.

Yes, any---compatible---simplifications in this area are very welcome, IMO.

-Stephan

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