Hi Everyone, I inadvertantly changed the behaviour of DeleteVisitor in Pharo 8. In Pharo 7 DeleteVisitor will follow all symbolic links when deleting a directory tree. This has two consequences:
- A symbolic link that points to its containing directory will result in an infinite loop. - Files may be deleted that are NOT subdirectories of the root directory. The Pharo 8 behaviour of not following symbolic links is how the linux 'rm -r' command behaves, and how I think DeleteVisitor should behave. As Sean commented in http://forum.world.st/File-problems-in-Pharo-8-tp5095111p5095176.html following symbolic links can lead to unexpected behaviour, deleting files out of the tree, and thus is quite dangerous. But since it is a change in existing behaviour, I wanted to let everyone know in case there's something I haven't thought of. I'll submit a PR that updates the appropriate method and class comments in a few days. Cheers, Alistair
