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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")
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Colin Walters |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to") |
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Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:53:29 -0400 |
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 19:51 -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> > Specifically for the above: Why would we need an *alternative* to .arch-
> > inventory files? They solve an existing problem quite well.
>
> They don't solve things like file-type-specific diff and merge methods.
This could look something like:
diff ^.+\.xml$ my-xml-diff
> > The only other actual example of where you think Furth would be useful
> > in tla that I've gleaned from this thread is "project-specific" rules.
> > My answer to that is: "exec". You have yet to rebut that.
>
> Exec is a kind of expensive function call with limited expressiveness.
> Saying "exec" fails to say what is execed or how it interacts with the
> state of the parent process. I'm not sure you've said anything
> specific enough to rebut.
Of course, we would have to examine detailed (preferably real-world)
problem descriptions and attempt to evaluate what a specific solution
would look like. This is what we should have been doing from the first,
instead of deciding that a VM is needed and then looking for nails to
hit with it...
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Magnus Therning, 2004/07/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Jan Hudec, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Colin Walters, 2004/07/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/06
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to"), Tom Lord, 2004/07/06