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# Suggestion, re: Minimal.db

- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 16:27:36 PST
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    	I'm remembering all the discussion about the Minimal Db,
    its uses and shortcomings.  I'd like to join the crowd and offer
    my belated suggestions.

    	I hear the spelling object is buggy or perhaps is not
    used any more.  Has anyone hooked up a use-counter to it to see
    if this is the case?  If it is buggy/unused, can it's apparently
    vast space be used for anything else?

    	I use the Book object a lot.  I picked it up at Ranalou's
    place and the book object I had there for the longest time was
    the BEST - small, simple and very usable.  Noteditor works
    perfectly with it, and all my jottings are collected.  This
    objectis not in the Minimal - am I the only person who really
    likes this object?

    	The Autoport is a great mechanism.  I think if the
    stablest forms can be compared and a best one chosen, that winner
    should be placed in the new Minimal.  Whatever qualifies for
    'best' is anyone's guess, however I like having it on one object
    as suggested.

    	A variation on this theme, perhaps - an AutoPorter that
    would interface with an FTP site to update or requests updates of
    various objects.  That way, when perhaps a new version of say
    notedit is released, those interested can update their system
    easily and with great confidence.

    	This may necessitate a standard for Moos - like #0, some
    place where autoport can find pointers to 'known' objects -
    perhaps Everyman has changed, or something like that.  That way
    Autoport can correct code that is made Autoportable via keywords
    in comments, etc, and make sure that the code will use the same
    objects on the destination system.

    	Idle thoughts, that's all.

    --
    - Lionel R 'Bishop' Clark	bishop@abbey.cuug.ab.ca
    				bishop@acs.ucalgary.ca

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