Re: The great "kill-scrollkeeper-with-a-blunt-spoon" Proposal

[Peter Williams <peter newton cx>]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 22:49 +0100, Don Scorgie wrote:
> 3.2. spoon-register
> -------------------

I'm not claiming to be an absolute authority here, but I think it'd be
nice to avoid a -register program. Mono does this with DLL's in the
Global Assembly Cache by defining exactly where they land in the
filesystem. Then a package can just plop down the appropriate files and
not worry about having to invoke install/uninstall hooks. In this case,
you could say something like "put your OMF file in the following
directory:

	/usr/share/spoon-1.0/omf/<lang>/<seriesid>.omf"

or whatever. If there are any index files that need to be updated, you
can rebuild them as-needed (I think you can just check the modtime of
the containing directory?).

Anyway, in general, I'd say it's better to have a "just put a file in
directory X and you're good" model rather than an "invoke this black box
tool" model. At least it makes packaging a lot more straightforward.

Just a thought,

Peter

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Peter Williams / peter newton cx