This is not the first rant about it.
I guess the most constructive way to help would be to open an issue.

Nicolas

Le 6 mars 2012 14:22, Tudor Girba <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> Filesystem is part of the Pharo 1.4 image and the code resides in the
> Pharo 1.4 repository.
>
> Essentially, as Lukas pointed out, this is a fork. There is absolutely
> nothing wrong with that, especially if you want to base the core on
> it.
>
> However, the problem is what happens with the changes. Do they flow
> back to the original author, or do you want to fork completely? Of
> course, a collaboration requires at least two parties to work together
> :), but it would still be cool to get the position clear.
>
> Of course, some changes are internal and they have little impact on
> the end user, but sometimes the public interface changes, too, and
> that is more problematic. Case in point are the onDisk and inMemory
> methods which were renamed to disk and memory, respectively. This
> basically breaks any previous code that is using Filesystem. Is there
> a particular reason for doing this (the original names seem perfectly
> legitimate), or was it just a mistake?
>
> Cheers,
> Doru
>
>
> --
> www.tudorgirba.com
>
> "Every thing has its own flow"
>
>

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