[erlang-questions] Stuff that breaks when you move it

[Joe Armstrong]

Wow - your read me correctly - amazing stuff. This is really itching
my programmers nerve.

So in Erlang we have dets files (containers) - a web server is trivial
- diffing is easy -
compression is easy - crypto is easy. Files are named by their SHA1 checksum and
signed with an RSA key - trees are named by SHA1 of term_to_binary(Tree) etc.

Embedding everything into a single file and signing all the trees
seems to be like
some kind of munge of the ideas in GIT and zip. This (fossil) stuff
looks well worth
studying - reading the Fossil documentation rings all the right bells - thanks
for the link.

/Joe



On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:42 PM, <ttmrichter@REDACTED> wrote:
> Sounds to me, Joe, that you're looking for something like the Fossil SCM
> (http://www.fossil-scm.org) unless I'm misreading something very badly.
>
> On Aug 4, 2009 3:53pm, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Image I have a a single web page with some js. I *never* intent to reuse
>> the js in
>> a second page. This is a one-off application.
>
>> You are saying that I should store this in *two* pages - not one. This
>> will have the
>> following consequences: