On Jul 4, 2011, at 9:11 AM, Damien Cassou wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Stéphane Ducasse
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> FS uses SecurityManager as a fix point to identify home.
>> Now we do not have Security manager so I'm wondering if we should not remove
>> home/document/desktop from FS,
>> else any ideas how we can replace the entry point a securityManager?
>
> Here is some words exchanged with Colin:
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Damien Cassou <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> on my computer, the following
>> FSPlatformResolver forCurrentPlatform home
>> evaluates to
>> /home/cassou/Documents/squeak
>> But I would have thought this would return '/home/cassou' instead.
>
> Hi Damien,
>
> Thanks for the report. Using the SecurityManager is a bit of a hack,
> and it doesn't work on all platforms. I'll see what I can do for the
> next release, but I think the only real way to fix this is through
> platform-specific plugin.
... which will take 12 month to appear in the VM. Oh, all but the Windows
VM, of course, because there the
Maintainer-who-knows-everything-better-and-needs-to-constantly-show-it
will have the inspiration in the last minute of realizing that "it can be done
better", but of course he has no time
nor intention of actually doing anything other than blocking everything.
So: Do not hold your breath.
Marcus
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Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de
INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.
