On Jul 1, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Stephen Pair wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr > > wrote: > Hi guys > > we should really consider to have an alternate (may be building on / > rewriting part of RIO) > but FileDirectory sucks. > > I have a file > > FileDirectory default > > and now I want to get two levels up. > > Well after 20 min looking around I could not find a way. > I'm probably too stupid for squeak arcane logic. > > Smalltalk deserves a better library for file. What a crap this stuff. > > Stef > > LoL...how many years did it take you to come to this conclusion?
No I knew it. I just got burned regularly. > Anyway, if anyone does take up the job of rewriting the file system > interface, I have a suggestion based on some recent stuff we've done > here at work. We wanted a way of running test cases for code that > uses the file system, but we didn't want to actually use the file > system (for speed...when you run many thousands of test cases, > hitting the disk can really slow things down). We wanted to > substitute an in memory simulation of a file system. We had to go > to great lengths to accomplish this (in VisualWorks). It would be > really cool if things like filenames and directories didn't make > assumptions about the file system with which they are used (so that > you could have filenames for in memory file systems, or filenames > for other file systems that one might connect with in ways other > than the built in local file system primitives). nice idea. > > - Stephen > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
