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One idea I've been throwing around is to replace files with HTTP resources; everything is a resource. Effectively Plan9s idea, but the time might be right.
by strictfp 7y ago
One idea I've been throwing around is to replace files with HTTP resources; everything is a resource. Effectively Plan9s idea, but the time might be right.
- BGyss 7y agoBelieve it or not there was a system at Sony Pictures Imageworks that worked like this - no idea what it was doing under the hood though. Worked great in practice though - every possible production resource was a URL that started with spref:// iirc.
- worble 7y agoI don't know much about the OS and designs, but is that similar to how Redox is approaching it with "everything is a url"[0]? [0]https://doc.redox-os.org/book/design/urls_schemes_resources.html https://doc.redox-os.org/book/design/urls_schemes_resources....
- PeterCorless 7y agoIf you go that route, bind unique objects to Uniform Resource Names (URN), and then have a mapping to instantiations (URLs), so that the same resource can be found in its multiple locations. Would help immeasurably for a distribution model.