Re: [ros-general] More crazy ideas (was: Microsoft wants royaltiesfor use of FAT)

[Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood]

Yes, someone did mention BeOS' method.

The way I was thinking of doing it, was to make it seamless - so the
applications see the files in the format it wants to see them in, without
requiring any modification.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101(a)yahoo.com>
To: <ros-general(a)reactos.com>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: [ros-general] More crazy ideas (was: Microsoft wants
royaltiesfor use of FAT)


>   You might look into the way this was done in the BeOS.
>  The BeOS had a
>  "Translation Kit" which provided pluggable translators which were made
>  available to various programs as an operating system service.  Programs
>  would need to be written to take advantage of this, of course, but
>  since it could be done as a shared library of some sort...
>
>  --- "Andrew \"Silver Blade\" Greenwood"
> <lists(a)silverblade.co.uk>
>  wrote:
> >   RE: [ros-general] More crazy ideas (was:
> > Microsoft wants royalties
> >  for use of FAT)Personally, I'd prefer to see this as a sort of API,
> >  which is what I think you're suggesting.
> >
> >  I don't think COM objects would be the best solution, as it's pretty
> >  much a Windows-only thing. If a different model could be used that
> >  was portable, then maybe the file format handlers would be portable,
> >  too?
> >
> >  I'm just thinking of the rather large picture - this design could be
> >  adopted by Linux too, for example.
> >
> >  However, due to the recent events regarding FAT file systems, I was
> >  thinking that this could be integrated into some sort of new file
> >  system, with some way to allow attribute tags (a bit like an XML
> >  structure in a way) so it's extendible.
> >
> >  I haven't really thought about too many of the details, but the main
> >  advantages would be applications could use the new file system as if
> >  it were an old one, and see files in several formats (so a MP3
> >  appears as an MP3, a WAV, an OGG, etc. but no conversion is done
> >  until the alternative format is used.) This would be for both new and
> >  old applications, so it'd be backwards-compatible.
> >
> >    ----- Original Message ----- 
> >    From: Colin Burn
> >    To: 'ros-general(a)reactos.com'
> >    Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:17 PM
> >    Subject: RE: [ros-general] More crazy ideas (was: Microsoft wants
> >  royalties for use of FAT)
> >
> >
> > >  To take another example, WAV MP3 OGG etc... All
> > > audio formats. All 
> >  could
> > >  have a common interface, so any program could read
> > > from and write 
> >  to these
> > >  files seamlessly, and the handler would handle
> > > the
> > > compression/decompression. 
> >    I dont think this really needs to be an OS feature but it might be
> >  nice if any applications that come with ReactOS offered sort of plug
> >  in file formats. You could easily write say an MSPaint clone that
> >  used COM objects to access image files. 3rd parties would then be
> >  able to write their own COM object for their own proprietary format.
> >  As good as this would be I dont think it needs integrating with the
> >  kernel but it should maybe something to bear in mind when people
> >  start to write applications to be shipped with ReactOS.
> >
> >
> >
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