Re: requests for clarification

[Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 Dec 2011, at 23:28, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:

>> What is the status of/plans for the orm stuff?
>> (https://github.com/mirage/orm - seems to be outside the current
>> 'release' and tutorial scope) (plan A for learning mirage was to try
>> making a web application or two)
> 
> The ORM was a bit of an early experiment. It certainly works, but the
> semantics of deletion are rather tricky. It's going to be a few months
> before it can be hooked back in. However, the easiest way to build a small
> web app is to compile in the data into the binary directly.

imo it might ultimately be nice to try having a near-identical interface 
between network and storage - kinda like sockets vs fds but type-safe.  i guess 
in such a case the orm would become more of a dynamically reconfigurable 
un/marshalling stub generator service (cf. 
<http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.7410> from nemesis 
days) operating on some appropriate reader/writer interfaces.  perhaps with 
barriers to stop frp frobbing stuff on disk - an interesting concept for the 
immutable datastore perhaps?

-- 
Cheers,

R.


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