14 Aug
2003
14 Aug
'03
4:11 a.m.
"Simon Marlow"
Graham Klyne writes:
Ummm... OK, let's see if I follow, by example. It sounds a bit like a Unix file tree, where new filesystems can be grafted (mounted) at any point in the tree.
Yes, that's a pretty good analogy.
Would it be reasonable to expect most packages to be grafted at the root? Or would they have a default grafting point? It seems to me that if packages are a bit disciplined in their choice of naming (i.e. modules in foo-1.2 are always Foo.something, possibly even deeper), the only reason for user-defined grafting point would be if a single program wanted to import modules from different versions of the same package. -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants