Re: An idea for versiont racking using translators

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:43:19AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Dienstag 09 September 2008 09:48:56 schrieb
> olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net:

> One very simple idea: An adventure game where your interface for
> decision making is in fact your file system. 
[...]

This is a funny idea indeed :-)

> > So, the next step is a mechanism for overloading UNIX commands?...
> > ;-)
> 
> *gg* 
> 
> Would be quite fun :) 
> 
> And is damn well possible (danger: brainstorm approaching ;-) ): 
> 
> Put a translator on /bin which points to a custom cp which first
> checks if one of the targets is covered by a version tracking
> translator, and if it is, it does a version tracking copy. If it
> isn't, it passes the parameters to the regular cp, circumventing the
> (one) translator. 
> 
> Or a translator on /bin which checks, if one of the parameters of a
> command involves files which are under another translator which
> provides custom unix commands. 

Hm... Maybe it would be possible to create a translator that intercepts
file_exec(), and supplies different files dependant on the arguments...
But -- aside from being potentially confusing to some tools, and not
very transparent -- it looks like overkill really. Much easier just to
provide plain old wrapper scripts for the commands, wouldn't it?... :-)

-antrik-