Re: New Spotlight Info
Re: New Spotlight Info
- Subject: Re: New Spotlight Info
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:35:59 +1100
This seems dangerously ironic - the NeXT (aka Apple post-modern)
argument against resource forks was that they made it hard to
transfer data between devices & other platforms... yet, I can send a
Classic app via most IM services (those that support AppleDouble) and
via email, but not an app package...
Which do you think is more likely to survive NFS/UFS? :)
I've never wanted nor needed to use UFS, nor NFS - I've tried the
latter, but it never seems to work with MacOS X (using it between Linux
boxes works fine, albeit after some tweaking).
On the other hand, I send files to people via email and IM every day
(not always applications of course, but sometimes - and with more and
more applications using bundles instead of single files, it's becoming
more and more a problem).
Of course, your same argument applies for ext2/3, resierfs, etc,
although luckily that's not so much of a problem, because MacOS X
doesn't support them. :) [well, ext2 it does, thanks to a 3rd party,
and possibly others, although not that I've seen]
I can't see a future for flat file systems. I don't particularly like
the Classic MacOS approach itself, but it was a lot better than what we
have now. After all the hype, Microsoft will eventually release a
version of Windows with a meta-rich file system. There are already
great strides being taken in similar things for Linux (mostly focusing
on efficient storage and fast access of small blocks, but ultimately
that's the key)... what's happening in Mac land? We've become a
society of fogey old Unix grandpas, holding on for dear life to our
archaic text-based foundations. :/
(when I say we, I mean the developers, which is the key here in terms
of survival of the platform)
Wade Tregaskis (AIM, Yahoo & Skype: wadetregaskis, ICQ: 40056898, MSN &
email: email@hidden, Jabber:
email@hidden)
-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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