Re: Proposed nsIFile and nsILocalFile Changes - MUST READ

[Doug Turner]

Daniel Veditz wrote:

> Doug Turner wrote:
> >
> > > I think this will improve i18n file name handling a lot. Problem is, the
> > > way the unicode->file sys char set conversions are done now requires uconv
> > > and is undefined when XPCOM_STANDALONE=1. What can we do about the standalone
> > > case if it's all unicode, all the time?
> >
> > Your right.  We can't support XPCOM_STANDALONE if we change the nsIFile interface
> > to exclusively use the unicode calls.
>
> Put the "native path" interfaces on nsILocalFile.  This cleans up nsIFile,
> while allowing access to the real deal in those cases where it's necessary.
>
> -Dan Veditz

You mean we should move the non unicode functions to nsILocalFile?  What about
attributes that can reference both a nsILocalFile and a nsIFOOFile, such as (append,
leafName, path, ect).