[Cuis] Wrapper for file access in different Smalltalk dialects

[Germán Arduino]

Aha....And this will be a new version of Cuis, for example 4.3?




2015-06-02 10:16 GMT-03:00 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>:

> Hi folks,
>
> This is the plan (if everybody agrees)
> - Make FileMan part of the Cuis base image.
> - Convert all code in the base image and core packages to use FileMan
> instead of FileDirectory and DirectoryEntry.
> - Remove FileDirectory and DirectoryEntry to SqueakCompatibility.pck.st,
> and discourage its use.
>
> This might take some time, and would be done in incremental steps. But I'd
> start soonish.
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
>
> On 5/29/2015 8:03 AM, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
>
>> Yes, put in Core if possible.
>> Welcome Masashi-san and FileMan was one old times favorite
>>
>>
>> On 5/28/15, 9:21 AM, "Juan Vuletich"<juan at jvuletich.org>  wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Masashi-san,
>>>
>> On 5/26/2015 11:34 PM, Masashi UMEZAWA wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I
>>> think it is nice if FileMan is on the core package repository.
>>>
>>> FileMan for
>>> Cuis (and Squeak) has minimum dependencies to the existing
>>> FileDirectory and
>>> DirectoryEntry. FileMan selectively uses a few
>>> methods of them.
>>>
>>> So we
>>> can gradually adopt FileMan interfaces and trim the
>>> FileDirectory and
>>> DirectoryEntry's non-intuitive methods.
>>>
>>> Another way of cleaning-up the
>>> file-related classes is to port
>>> FileSystems to Cuis.
>>> But since Cuis is a
>>> lightweight Smalltalk dialect, FileSystems might
>>> be an overkill.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> regards,
>>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Having a better, simpler filesystem api would be a good
>>
>>> improvement.
>>>
>> Being it multi-dialect is even better.
>>
>> We can adopt
>>
>>> Masashi-san's FileMan as an optional package, or if we
>>>
>> agree, we can just
>>
>>> include it in the base image and start converting
>>>
>> existing code to use it.
>>
>>> Please take a good look at it
>>>
>>>  https://github.com/mumez/Cuis-Smalltalk-FileMan
>>
>> After some time, we can
>>
>>> start converting FileMan so it doesn't use
>>>
>> FileDirectory at all. Then we can
>>
>>> just completely remove the old api.
>>>
>> Thoughts?
>> Juan Vuletich
>>
>>
>
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