Messages in this thread | | | From | "Lou Grinzo" <> | Subject | Re: An offer related to the the ongoing albod issue | Date | Sun, 27 Jun 1999 08:53:38 -0400 |
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Brandon,
That was my intent, actually-to help at both the requirements stage and the design stage. We've got a lot of posts here about different design and performance aspects of layered trees and albods, etc., but I have yet to see someone lay out exactly what the changes visible to the user and programmer will be, and why they're worth the effort.
I'm NOT saying that this project isn't worthwhile; with my schedule, I haven't the time or the inclination to get involved with half the things that I think have merit, let alone the ones that don't. But I do think it is critical that this effort be focused at least a little more, especially if it will result in changes to the kernel.
Lou
From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 11:20:44 -0400 Subject: Re: An offer related to the the ongoing albod issue
In message <000801bebfe4$366526c0$67235e18@stny.rr.com>, "Lou Grinzo" writes: +----- | Would it be useful for the current discussion of albods or | compound documents or file conglomerations or whatever | we're calling it this half-hour, to have someone organize a | design document that directly addresses what is and isn't | included, what the expected benefits to users and programmers | will be, etc.? +--->8
I don't think we're at that point yet --- it's hard to write a design document when you don't have an agreed-upon set of objectives yet....
What might be useful would be a summary document listing the various ideas that have gone by, with pointers to the messages expounding them (via links to kernel list archives). Possibly that would help avoid the devfs-thread-ish "is everyone talking about the same thing?" problem.
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