Hi Armand.
On 09.03.02 (20:05), Armand A. Verstappen wrote:
> The discussions in this thread made be combine thoughts and
> come up with a 'serialize and bootstrap' concept, one that
> absolutely needs refining, but potentially could be of great
> support to the MidCom initiative.
Cool stuff! I really like those darn simple approaches as they
actually seem to be implementable in finite amounts of time.
> CONCEPT
>
> namespaces within the snippetdir/snippet hierarchy will be
> tagged as filespace snippets. a utility 'bootstrap', can scan
> the configured filesystem directories for files, wich will be
> imported as snippets, a utility 'serialize' will flatten out
> existing snippet trees for writing to the filesystem.
>
> FORMAT
>
> The format of the 'serialized' snippets must be of a workable
> design, so that normal tools will work on it. So instead of
> using XML, we might turn a snippet into a directory whith
> files for each of elements:
>
> snippetdir/snippetname/GUID
> /SG
> /code
> /author
> /.... (etc)
>
> a snippetdir should also hold files to discribe it properties.
Such as:
snippetdir/name
owner
description
sitegroup
Maybe we should create 'property file names' with leading dots
or something right from the start, in order to avoid name
clashes with, for example, a snippet named 'owner'.
> If properly designed, this would allow us to use the
> timestamps and the GUID to interface with repligard to do the
> bootstrapping/serializing. This would enable us to use
> existing packaging tools to distribute aplications, use cvs in
> shared development, etc, while still having repligard at the
> core.
Great idea, I think!
phr
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