[Cuis] Wrapper for file access in different Smalltalk dialects

[Juan Vuletich]

Yes. It should be.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

On 6/2/2015 10:23 AM, Germán Arduino wrote:
> Aha....And this will be a new version of Cuis, for example 4.3?
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> 2015-06-02 10:16 GMT-03:00 Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org 
> <mailto:juan at jvuletich.org>>:
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>     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 <http://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:
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>         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
>         <mailto: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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