SquirrelJME/SquirrelJME

# 2014/07/29

***DISCLAIMER***: _These notes are from the defunct k8 project which_
_precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26!_
_The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such_
_all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no_
_longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it._

## 05:03

Had this idea for the C compiler, execution profiles. People write some nasty
non-portable code which is bad. With this I could say simulate the stuff
similar to PowerPC or x86, big endian, little endian, size of the pointer,
etc. Not a true fix, as it does not fix broken programmers, but it would ease
portability much.

## 05:12

ArgumentParsing does not work for how I plan my package manager to work, so I
will modify it to make it a bit more iterable, then switch parse to perform
the same behavior.

## 05:22

Rather than twist it one way, I will twist it another way and break
compatibility with existing code using it since very little uses it now.

## 05:48

Actually I just realized how odd it would be having an iterator return the
next of itself, so need a slight redesign and simplification. I have to use
Iterable on that one.

## 06:00

Actually, I should eat before I do all this work so I can concentrate on it
more.

## 20:23

New ArgumentParser now will be able to handle the split character when
searching for arguments.

## 21:07

Slight problem with the ServiceLoader, it does not exist in Java 5 so I cannot
use it for plugins at least on GCJ/GIJ. So I will need a wrapper class to
handle Java 5, Java 6's ServiceLoader, and I could also make it able to handle
my own service loading library.

## 21:21

I was also writing the plugin lookup outside the PMAPI, but that will change
because I dislike duplicate code everywhere.

## 21:46

For a filesystem I am going to go tag based, then I can add image properties
and other file metadata. I have tons of files and actually using the tags to
locate things would be far better. Tags for resolution, colors in an image,
whether faces are on them or not. Same can be said for other file types like
programs, classes, etc. I can do advanced searches for say images that have a
width of at most 128.