[twg-tds] storing scripts in the texmf tree

[Hans Hagen]

At 20:49 13/02/2004, Paul Vojta wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 07:51:30PM +0100, Olaf Weber wrote:
> > > -  a service (on some port)
> >
> > Not implemented (yet).
> >
> > > -  shared memory for subprocesses
> >
> > As currently implemented, the datastructures are not suitable for
> > this.  In test versions I have been playing with datastructures that
> > are (they have to be independent of the address at which the data is
> > loaded).
>
>Of course, the logical next step would be a file system (kpsefs).
>
>:-)

actually, we should start thinking aloing those lines ... microsoft 
longhorn will have a database'd filesystem (sql + xml) so i expect the 
'others' to follow up on that; in a way kpse is already a sort of 
intelligent way to access the tree, we'd better be prepared for that

Hans


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