[MacPerl-Modules] Mac::Glue notes

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

Just a quick note here: I think I am going to change Mac::Glue to work like
this:

  use Mac::Glue;
  $f = new Mac::Glue 'Finder';

The Finder docs, instead of being stored in Mac:Glue:Finder.pm, will be in
Mac:Glue:Finder.pod, and the hash will be stored in a persistent data
structure using something else.  Probably stored in
"$ENV{MACPERL}site_perl:Mac:Glue:Appname", so it can be found reliably.
But that is up in the air.

I am thinking of using MLDBM and Storable and DB_File.  This will mean a
couple of things:

* Disk storage requirements go down
* Time to load goes down, since MLDBM does not require entire structure to
be read in at load time, which is good for huge aete's like for the Finder
* Storable needs to work on CFM68K and needs to be statically linked to
bigappl, eventually, if we want non-CFM68K 68K people to be able to use it
... I don't recall if Storable works on CFM68K now

Let me know if you see any problems with this.

Also, I am thinking of asking people who want to discuss Mac::Glue to join
this list.  Any problems with that?  Better place?  macperl-toolbox?
macperl?

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Chris Nandor          mailto:pudge@pobox.com         http://pudge.net/
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