28 Jan
2004
28 Jan
'04
10:13 a.m.
What i suggested was neither of these.
I suggested a generalization from dirve letters to drive words.
Everyone is still free to use one character dirve words/identifiers
Lorenzo schrieb:
Dear Björn Fischer,
In fact I'm someone who dislikes driveletters
(please don't beat me ;-).
I like the Unix-style filesystem. I also like the Unix paradigma that
everything is treated like a file. By this you have a unique way to
access files, devices and everything else.
:-) I will not beat you! It's not a good idea to start a war of religion for
such a reason!
The same is with mounting drives somewhere in the
file-tree. I think
this way of drive access is much more elegant than assigning a letter to
each drive. Has anybody ever tried what happens whe trying to use 27
devices under Windows? Will it use two letters then? Or numbers?
The problem is that there is some kind of esthetics problem: I find horrible
the Unix file system and do you finds horrible the drive letters. But let me
say that in a system with 27 devices the problem is the design of that
system, not the lack of drive letters! Then, in my system I have 6
partitions but only 3 HD letters, because I mounted some of them as NTFS
folders, but I've still a good rationale behind the 3 letters (C: is
system/binaries/programs, D: is personal data and projects, E: is multimedia
*big* files). The big monolithic Unix approach tends to be messy and
confuse, and it's hard to find where a file is (and to understand where it
should be...)
The good thing (for me :-) is that it would be a very poor decision to get
rid of drive letters in ROS.
Lorenzo
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