[LAD] Non Session Management

[Emanuel Rumpf]

Am 28. März 2012 05:42 schrieb David Robillard <d at drobilla.net>:
> On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 14:24 +0200, Emanuel Rumpf wrote:
> I am having a hard time imagining anything *less* likely to be adopted
> than trying to cram a *database* down everyone's throats to save some
> files! ;)
>
With database here, actually, I'm refering to a more or less simple text format.
for example, recently I stumbled about:  GNU recutils
(readable, but it is slow)


>
> No session manager that forces everyone to use some database would ever
> fly.  This is obvious.
>
It doesn't force the clients to use a db. The SM would have a text-db and
simply communicated with the clients, to find out their files-in-use.


>> - having symlinks leaves the user with the question how to reliably
>> copy a directory, without messing up everything (dereference yes/no,
>> follow links yes/no ...), something that is critical to deside
>
> That is inherent to any solution with "links" to external resources.
> Links to external resources are a requirement.  If you want to move a
> session, use a smart tool that can fix the links, or archive it.
>

The point here is to make it as simple and as little fault-prone to the user
as possible:

A user should be able - with a single button-click (or cml)  - to make
a directory with all files belonging to a session, optionally either
keeping references or creating copies of them (of Lfiles).

Did you ever re-assign 200 symlinks ?
Compare that with a simple search-and-replace in a textfile, with an
editor of your choice.

-- 
E.R.