Re: Need for security model

On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 04:17  AM, Mark Bainter wrote:

> Low Zhen Lin [[email protected]] wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 04:11  AM, Chris Frey wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 12:48:36AM +0800, Low Zhen Lin quoted a spec:
>> Much of that. It is the build manager, download manager, package
>> manager among some other things. It will be distributable, meaning, 
>> you
>> can run the components on different computers, but it will be able to
>> form one coherent whole.
>
> Will it also be componantized?  I.e., split into many pieces and
> strung together to build the application?  Or will it be a monolithic
> piece split into a couple of sections that can be run seperately?

Hmm, aren't those two quite similar? Well, the Xeta code will be 
grouped together into components, one component to a shared library. It 
will definitely be possible to link them all together into a single 
program, or into seperate daemons, or even a generic daemon... The 
thing is that, each component is not aware of the locality of the other 
components. They might be in the same address space, in a different 
process or on a different computer.

I'm uncertain how it will be implemented on a desktop scenario though. 
I suppose the single daemon is the best solution... But a constant 
overhead might worry some users.

I'm scheduled to present the final architecture for Xeta core today... 
Better get back to work.