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Mark Fowler hated:
> This of course, is pure insanity of the worst kind. Whoever came up with
> the idea of reinventing a whole secondary Finder/Explorer system in order
> to save a file, rather than using the perfectly good one the user has
> already, needs a good kicking.
The whole concept of files is hateful IMO. Wasn't the BeOS storage
system originally going to be just an RDBMS? That would be nice, you
just have data BLOBs and arbitrary metadata (chosen by the application,
perhaps with the user's intervention, but stored in an OS-defined way so
that it's indexable and searchable) so that you can find your data
again. But then they decided that abandoning the hierarchical filesystem
was too outre' even for Jean-Luc Gasse'e and his delirious followers.
But that would solve the problem you're hating about - you'd presumably
have three options (save, save as new version*, save in other format)
instead of the current two (save, save as) and conveniently get rid of
the overloading of 'save as' to have two functions, as well as getting
version control for free.
* - to replace the save as -> save with the same format but a new
filename dance, because there's now no concept of a filename
--
David Cantrell | Reprobate | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It
eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the
business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
-- Johnny Hart
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