I _think_ we would almost have to include both for migration.  FileDirectory is 
awful.  +1 on the idea of killing it.



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Lienhard
Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:32 AM
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Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Is there a small and effective File library around?

+1

Would we include this new Filesystem besides the old FileDirectory 
implementation to simplify migration of external code?

Adrian

On Nov 19, 2009, at 14:41 , Marcus Denker wrote:

>
> On Nov 19, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
>
>> I am using Filesystem from http://source.wiresong.ca/mc/ from Colin.
>> As far as I know an official release is imminent.
>>
>> It is an amazing library, well documented and well tested with almost 
>> 400 unit tests (they all pass in Pharo). It supports uniform access 
>> to the filesystem, zip archives and in-memory filesystems (for 
>> tests).
>> It
>> supports different enumeration strategies and platform specific 
>> locations (such as home-directory, desktop, etc).
>>
>> Filesystem is built on the existing primitives, but does not depend 
>> on FileDirectory and FileStream. I already mentioned this library 
>> several times in the list and suggested to include it with Pharo core 
>> and kill FileDirectory.
>>
>
> + 1000
>
>
>       Marcus
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