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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling |
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Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:03:16 +0900 |
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>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Irving-Beer <address@hidden> writes:
Adrian> I don't think it's unfeasable that in a couple of years,
Adrian> tla (or whatever the de facto arch client is) will be much
Adrian> more cross- platform.
Neither tla nor the platform is the problem; it's the rest of the
toolchain. Toolchains are almost by definition platform-specific and
also task-specific, and have their own quirks.
arch should provide binary semantics for objects it manages,
attributes for each object, and a way to plug in an attribute-
dependent codec on the client. Toolchains/platforms/projects should
provide their own codecs, which the arch project could accept as
"contrib" and maintain a library, but should not "support" as part of
arch.
Support for the codec library as a related project is up to the arch
maintainers, and would be desirable. I'm just saying that a project
using arch should decide what the archival file format should be, and
arch should serve those files up byte-for-byte identical to the
archive content, until it gets to the codec. After that it's up to
project policy, and mistakes in codec usage aren't arch bugs _by
definition_. Separation of responsibility and all that.
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla front-ends, (continued)
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla front-ends, Matthieu Moy, 2004/10/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla front-ends, John Meinel, 2004/10/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Having two precommit hooks, Miles Bader, 2004/10/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Having two precommit hooks, Miles Bader, 2004/10/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Having two precommit hooks, James Blackwell, 2004/10/10
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Having two precommit hooks, Matthieu Moy, 2004/10/11
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling, mlh, 2004/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling, Marcus Sundman, 2004/10/07
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/10/07
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling, tomas, 2004/10/08