Re: deconstructing OS

[Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8 Nov 2013, at 01:21, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:

> We've been slowly decomposing the OS module that's built by mirage-platform 
> into separate libraries for a while now ... An important part of these 
> libraries is that they can build independently of Mirage-platform, so a 
> normal UNIX app can just go ahead and use Io_page without having to ever 
> worry about Xen things.

cool :)

> Thoughts?  This split will leave very little in Mirage-platform (just the 
> Time and Main modules), along with the runtime libraries, but result in more 
> repositories.  I think OPAM mostly takes care of the latter problem however...

fwiw, i think this is absolutely the right thing to do and agree that OPAM 
should take care of the library management problem.

how pervasively are we going to fragment things?  eg., will Net be fragmented 
into separate libs per that fine diagram in your CACM paper?  

-- 
Cheers,

R.




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