[ILUG] "unix style" package management

[Padraig Brady]

Stephen Shirley wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 02:50:27PM +0100, Padraig Brady wrote:
> 
>>It would have been really nice if there were
>>reserved characters (at least 1), for filenames
>>in unix that could be interpreted for various
>>things. Currently the only chars that are illegal
>>are NUL and /.
> 
> 
> Doesn't that count as bad design overloading a data field like that? For
> all the same reasons that file extensions on windows are bad. A much
> better, and cleaner idea is to store metadata about the file like on
> macs.
> 
> Steve

But wouldn't that expand the API a lot?
I.E. instead of read("/path/file#resource_fork")
you would have read_resourcefork("/path/file");

Padraig.