Re: Voting reminder: OLE

<jcastagnetto@yahoo.com> wrote : > > --- Xavier Noguer <xnoguer@rezebra.com> wrote: >> El Jue 17 Abr 2003 14:30, Jesus M. Castagnetto escribi?: >>> --- Xavier Noguer <xnoguer@rezebra.com> wrote: >>>> El Jue 17 Abr 2003 02:30, LIMBOURG Arnaud escribio: >>>>> +1 >>>>> >>>>> Wha will be the category ? Structures ? >>>> >>>> Yes. I'm proposing it for Structures. >>>> >>>> >>>> Xavier >>> >>> +1 for the pacakage (although I do not use Windows) >>> -1 for Structures as a category >>> >>> Using that name can be confusing, because usually when you see classes/libs >>> classified under a "Structures" category, one tend to think about data >>> structures, e.g.: lists, linked lists, sets, bags, maps, stacks, heaps, >>> etc. >> >> OLE's internal structure tries to resemble a filesystem, with files and >> directories. In that sense it is a data structure. > > Yep. I looked at your code again, and indeed is a fs-like. But it is not a > general data structure in the sense of: > > http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/datastructur.html > > It is a structure in the sense of a specific C struct or similar. Any other > possible names? > > Also, my examples were a little mixed. In some langs lists/bags, sets, > maps/hashes, etc. are collections or data containers, and linked lists, > stacks, > trees, graphs, are general (or abstract) data structures. > > Just take this as my understanding on the issue/concept. I am not a > professional programmer, just a scientist that mangles code. > >>> I am not sure if I would put OLE as a structure (if that were true, then >>> CORBA would be one too), but as a interprocess protocol or something along >>> those lines. >> >> I'm not trying to implement COM. The OLE format is just that, a format for >> containing files. The package implements an API for reading an OLE >> container's contents or writing them, nothing more. > > Perhaps a "Container" category then? > > Anyone else w/ ideas, opinions, clarifications? Maybe Protocol, Linking, Interface, Network. Network already exists, I think it's the best category for this stuff. -1 for Structure. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam