Message-Id: <332694F2.565D@novabase.pt>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:35:14 +0000
From: "Filipe Cust\sdio" <fmc AT novabase DOT pt>
Reply-To: fmc AT novabase DOT pt
Organization: Novabase, SA
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: OpenDOS mailing list <opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net>
Subject: Re: [opendos] BAD Filesystems
References: <Pine DOT NXT DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 970311162945 DOT 5034A-100000 AT eagle1>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Precedence: bulk

jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com wrote:
> 
> The shared libraries problem is a rather trivial relational data base
> problem.

I liked the DB approach. However, I see no point in using dBase or any
other complex DBMS for this simple problem;

Your libs.dat could be a text file with the following entries:

- Library name
- Version
- Path

This file would be updated by any conforming installation program. All
the library management problem would be done exclusively in memory, as
to reduce the amount of time needed at application startup.

Just my 2c worth!

Filipe