Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: nice troll (was: All this resource-fork AKA multiple stream nonsense) | Date | Tue, 06 Jul 1999 00:06:55 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said: > Alan Cox writes: > > What is the kernel tree. I do believe its a compound document > > in a directory tree.
> The kernel tree is a collection of related documents. > One could abuse a compound document system to store > source code, but that would be a lousy idea. Source > code doesn't have many of the normal document-like > properties. For example: > > There isn't a well-defined and obvious way to print the > whole thing.
Give me enough paper...
> Nobody would think of just cut-and-pasting the whole kernel > source into another project. Going the other way is also a > silly concept.
The kernel is a bit on the largeish side, granted. But "pasting source into the kernel" is what this list is supposed to be about...
> One wouldn't embed a spreadsheet document into the kernel.
Nope. Better a database with lines modified, when and by whom and a nice comment explaining why.
> One wouldn't embed a kernel source tree into a spreadsheet.
Makes no sense, yes. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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