Re: OLE Discussion (was Re: Opendoc)

[Toshio Kuratomi <badger prtr-13 ucsc edu>]

On Wed, 13 May, 1998 at 05:59:44PM -0500, Miguel de Icaza set free these words:
> 
> > Oh, really?  That's commendable.  What are some of your favorite
> > features?  How do you think it'll be reflected in GNOME?  Oh, and
> > what's your list of OLE nasties?
> 
> First of all: OLE2 is the second attempt at Microsoft at getting their
> component model right, and they succeeded pretty much.  
> 
> There are many good things on it:
> 
>      1. To deal with the file storage and caching, they have a
> 	structured storage manager.  We can think of it as a
> 	filesystem inside a file. 
> 
I heard (but am not familiar enough to know) that this was a bad
design decision because it introduces filesystem problems (such as
fragmentation) into the file.  Is that a consideration?

-Toshio
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