Messages in this thread | | | From | Michal Jaegermann <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? | Date | Sat, 12 Aug 2000 17:23:58 -0600 (MDT) |
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Proponent of Rube Goldberg-like contraptions for storing "extendent information" about files claim that an obvious answer of using directories for such purpose is "brittle". A long real-life experies from NeXTSTEP does not support that.
On NeXT various "NeXT Apps" are simply directory tries and command line tools do not even try to hide that fact. If you are using graphical file tools then by default they will show up as a single entity but an extra command, not hidden very deeply :-), will allow you to open such unit as a directory and get to components separately. This is, actually, a _good thing_ as a user can, for example, adjust and customize various interface elements using Interface Builder. After many years when NeXTSTEP is around I do not recall serious complaints that this leads to a breakage and if somebody will acutally mess something up then things are easily fixable.
OTOH various other complicated schemes for storing a meta-information invariably turn out to be a major PITA and _really brittle_ outside their very narrowly defined "native environments" and break regularly when somebody will do something "unexpected" (read - use some standard and universal tool).
With all this evidence in mind I watch pretty amazed when this discussion periodically flares up and various kludges are proposed as if nobody tried something like that in the past.
Michal
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