On 2012-12-05, at 15:03, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> Thanks for the confirmation. >> >> Did I read somewhere that XTreams would be included in Pharo2.0? > > May be > Now just loading them and not improving the system to be able to throw away > the old streams is not satisfactory > and we do not have the manpower for it. I think it is the same story as with the FileSystem... They will have to exist for some time in parallel, which will work fine since they don't share the same protocols. Then we have to do a major move towards a small legacy layer, again like in FS, and then start to rewrite things step by step to the new Xtreams. The current streams are so horribly broken that I think there is little to no chance to fix it from within. Maybe wrappers like Sven did will temporarily work around the issues, but they are poor solution compared to Xtreams. I remember Sean loaded and made Xtreams work in 2.0 and the couple of test failing were related to the FS changes from 14 to 20. And yes we might sweat some blood until the thing will properly run, but it will be worthwhile. Remember how much cleaner we are with the new FS. And I think the streams are even worse than the old FileDirectory was :)
