Re: [Summary] Meta-data/filesystem-encapsulation

[Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis mindspring net>]

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> Any solution based on:
>   - LD_PRELOAD
>   - Specificities of filesystems
>   - modification of standard daemon
>   - kernel changes
> 
> Should be banned at the very second you think about it, and I will do
> my best to avoid their integration as standard part of Gnome.

Agreed.

> If linux was an Os built from scratch (I mean without guidelines) all of
> your suggestions would be sound and I would be enthusiastic, OS/2, MacOs
> etc. were not designed with cross platform code reuse in mind. Gnome is !

Agreed.

>   Back to code and sane design practice !

I didn't know you were an optimist, Daniel.  8^)

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