RE: [Xpipe-developers] XComponent Questions

[Sean M. <sea...@pr...>]

At 07:37 16/01/2002 -0500, David Starr wrote:

> > Ideally, I think, an IO interface for XComponents that developers can use
> > but are
> > not forced to use would be good. An XComponent could flag its
> > conformance with
> > the XPipe IO system in the XCO file. The executive could then take
> > advantage of
> > this to, for example, chain Output of component N to imput of
> > component N+!
> > bypassing
> > serialization to disk.
> >
>That seems fair.  In the absense of such an interface in both component N
>and N+1, I assume the executive will create (and subsequently destroy) temp
>files used in interim steps.

Yes.

Sean