Chris Muller-4 wrote > While someone in the Pharo > community said FileSystem over FileDirectory is "huge", I see it as an > incremental API change
Can you still say that after reading http://forum.world.st/The-Magic-of-FileSystem-td4635471.html ?! FileSystem has hugely decremented the number of times I've wanted to throw my computer at a wall ;) FileDirectory occurred to me like graffiti painted on a great work of art. Multiply the above by every dark corner of the system and you have the barrier to the next stage of evolution. For myself, every time I've embarked on a bold new idea for our IDE, after getting bogged down in a mess of objects - like FileDirectory et al, or Paragraph and friends, or Morphic layout objects, and on and on - I reached a point where I was not willing to put in the tremendous effort required to understand the system (if even possible). And because few of the design decisions are documented, I didn't know how to clean things without breaking them. So, I gave up and just went back to the standard tools. I hate to keep repeating myself, but the Pharo manifesto is very clear, and makes these types of arguments moot: - Better for the better - Beauty to learn from - Not backward compatible - Clean, lean and fast Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/About-backwards-Compatibility-tp4658784p4659133.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
