13 Dec
2011
13 Dec
'11
5:37 p.m.
On 12/12/11 11:41 PM, David Riley wrote:
On Dec 12, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
It probably wouldn't have been a terrible idea if it had been used
like NIS/YP,
i.e. mostly in a networked workgroup context. I think it's
terrible as a local machine config repository. Can't see the damned
forest for the abstraction.
There's no doubt that this was NetInfo's intended purpose. But
"workgroups" and thin clients of the '90s barely got off the ground and
declined in relevance while the "thick" desktop PC metastasised.
--Toby
It was a
bad idea in NeXTSTEP, and an even worse idea in OS X. Good
riddance.
Is it really worse than NIS/YP (in fact NetInfo gives me the impression it was meant to
supersede it?)
- Dave