> - the consensus is that FileSystem is a nice API > - the consensus is that FileDirectory is/was ugly
Hence, you echo my original statement from the other thread. I wrote: >> ... While someone in the Pharo >> community said FileSystem over FileDirectory is "huge", I see it as an >> incremental API change, and close to being a matter of preference. > And you don't want to switch to it ? > Or you want to keep the old API and not force the switch on users ? Both. Because, while FileSystem is a cleaner design, the question posed was whether it is _worth_ breaking so many legacy packages and the promise of O.T. for "a nice API". That's when dramatic attempts to intensify the contrast between the two came out but with no concrete examples we arrived full-circle back to the original question. An acceptable compromise for me for putting it Squeak would be a FileDirectory wrapper that can pass its own test suite, which is precisely what Pharo did!
