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Puppy Pi

Can anyone explain to me? X'D

(I've tried for years to understand it but my brain doesn't work that way apparently!)

Like..is it for static code dependencies, like replacing a library? That makes sense that it auto-connects things based on which thing is The Implementation available for that service. But then why are things startable and stoppable? Why would I need to start and stop my bundle's implementation of regular expressions? XD

And if not, then why does it autoconnect things? What if I don't want *everything* that needs a "UsernamePasswordDatabaseService" to autoconnect to the one such database that happens to be loaded because I forgot to load all three.

And not to mention..*can* it support multiple connections of the same type? What if I make an app that offers two "ports" for user databases in case you want them to be different (one for admins and another for mods/users).

And not to mention if it supports a variable number of "port"s at runtime! Like I would expect a user database supporting an arbitrary number of connections to it as the provider would need to do (but maybe something needs a number of connections as the consumer dependent on how many "realms" or something are set up in its configuration files!)

(I'll probably just make my own thing like I always do, because I'm inferior enough in my autism to be Different in what ontologies my brain independently comes up with and so documentation always leaves out the most basic things everyone knows everyone else already understands without having to Learn them, just by being The Same)

(by "ontologies" I mean which Things there are and which are Different Things and which are the Same Kind Of Thing and which Attributes Things have and etc.c.)

(And so I need to Talk to People to understand them so I can ask Questions about things they know no sane (Same As Them) person would need to or think to ask.)

(And this counts as "hand-holding" which is considered an inferiority in almost every engineering circle I've ever been in. ..Which is why engineering circles are useless to me.)

(But here on fedi I've interacted with techy people (outside of the closet!) and they don't think I need to have the "design flaw" of autism/effeminacy fixed!)

@mnl Oh thanks so very much—that's exactly what I wanted!! I'll read it soon :>

(Like in physics class; learning to use the equations vs. learning to *understand* them X3 )