Re: Directory templates

If Dave is right about the implications of the proposed new
functionality, then I would like to add my endorsement. We need to do
similar things to what he is interested in.

-Mark

Dave Makower wrote:
> 
> Anselm Baird-Smith wrote:
> >I would really like to introduce the possibility for a directory
> >resource to have its own resource indexer (so that you could say that
> >everything below this directory should be exported in that way), how
> >valuable this would be to you (it's really a matter of priority of
> >tasks) ?
> >
> 
> In response to a previous question of mine, you replied that I ought to be
> subclassing DirectoryResource rather than building it from scratch by
> subclassing FilteredResource.  One reason I had to fall back to
> FilteredResource is that I wanted to be able to let a subtree use its own
> indexing strategy (perhaps creating indices of information that doesn't
> actually live in the file system per se, but is instead accessed through
> other channels).  Sounds like this new functionality you describe would
> help me out quite a bit.

Received on Friday, 9 August 1996 14:13:42 UTC