On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 02:27:17PM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: > Hi Hendrik, > ... (much snipped) (I'm sorry, I hadn't meant to take you away from vdev for the amount of time it took to write this lengthy and interesting reply)
> > An interesting consequence of structuring applications this way is that you > can trivially solve both network transparency and application distribution: > simply put the application on an NFS mount (or some network filesystem), > and run the interpreter on the local client. The application stores > runtime state as files within its directory hierarchy, so they get > automatically written to the NFS server. Users could run remote > applications locally simply by mounting the remote volume and running the > interpreter on them in-place. > > I was considering building such an interpreter as well as and a suite of > applications for Devuan at some point, after finishing vdev. I was > thinking of calling it "shui"--both from the concept of "feng shui" (the > idea of harmonizing everyone with their environment), as well as serving as > an acronym for "SHell-oriented User Interface". Sounds interesting. But for applications like ordinary text editing, it might become a little slow if you end up running a shell script with every character typed. The idea did seem to work somewhat for the ancient mail handler MH (if I recall correctly). But as for the file system ... I wonder if the completely virtual file system in something like Inferno could help things along -- put more of the primitive operations into the file itself. Or have I misunderstood Inferno? Of course, taking this to its logical conclusion would move the file system rather seriously in the direction of a typed persistent objects system, with methods and so forth. A very different beast from what we're used to. -- hendrik > > -Jude _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
