Agreed that good scripts replacing the 1!: and 2!: families are critical. There should be no problem in providing the same functionality and there is every reason to retain jfiles.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:48 AM, John Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > The devil is always in the details. > > I am generally in favor of replacing native foreigns with cd calls but the > potential removal of the 1!: and 2! families caught my eye. If this step > is > taken please provide clear scripts on the various platforms illustrating > how > these verbs can be replaced with equivalent cd calls. I am particularily > concerned about losing the component file facility in jfiles that sets on > top of the indexed read 1!: calls. The jfiles system is very useful, > performs well, and cannot be easily replaced with mapped files or streams. > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Oleg Kobchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > There is now a page on J Wiki to discuss JFE for J701. > > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Beta/Front%20End > > > > It is fairly free-form, and any ideas are welcome. > > > > > > > > > > > From: "Sherlock, Ric" <[email protected]> > > > > > > Thank you for making that available. It is a really interesting read. > > > > > > I really like the decision to retain a separate method for defining a > GUI > > and > > > event handling for portability across JFEs. I'm also really looking > > forward to > > > investigating the jbserver! > > > > > > Will the mechanism for implementing x-platform support for things like > > 1!:x and > > > 2!:x be similar to the way say the media/platimg addon is organised? > > i.e. a > > > generic script containing the common interface that loads the > appropriate > > > platform-specific script defining low level verbs that do the cd calls. > > > > > > > From: Chris Burke > > > > > > > > Background info on IDE changes planned for J7 is at: > > > > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/jfe.htm > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > -- > John D. Baker > [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
