You must be joking [LWN.net]

You must be joking

Posted Nov 6, 2010 21:54 UTC (Sat) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)
In reply to: You must be joking by i3839
Parent article: LPC: Life after X

Add a way to copy something multiple times in different formats, and let the program pasting it choose the type it prefers.
So instead of a singular item, you suddenly got a list or array of items. I give you that, my simple scheme before wouldn't handle this too well, unnecessarily cludgey for text if you pass the file path as text already. So instead always have a text representation (also the path in case there's nothing else), and a (hopefully usually empty) list of files.
This pushes the complexity of handling multiple types to where it belongs, while keeping the copy and paste system itself simple.

All right. Now we're arrived at a complex tagged array scheme with server-managed copying. In what specific way is this better than (or hell, different from) what we have today?

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You must be joking

Posted Nov 6, 2010 22:18 UTC (Sat) by i3839 (guest, #31386) [Link]

It's not server managed, it's implemented as a library function, for one. There's no complex copying around, only simple copying around when needed.

Second, primarily it's a simple text based CP system, but for the people that want silly complex types, it supports an array of path/type pairs. That is where the API ends and the system is complete. Technically it's all very simple and straightforward.

As for whether it's better or not than the current system, I don't know. Read my first post, all I'm saying is that you don't need X for copy&paste and that it's trivial enough to implement.