File system model (was: UnixFileDirectoryPlugin)

Noel J. Bergman noel at devtech.com
Fri Jan 18 02:35:27 UTC 2002


> Let's keep the generic file interface simple ...

I agree: a simple generic file interace.  And it specify necessary basic
primitives.  But why is that in conflict with the existence of a more
general model?

What we did for one of our commercial applications was build on top of JNDI
where we mapped file systems, files, the web, and other content into
directory-like contexts.  If you want to look at it in that light, my
suggestion was towards a directory services interface for Squeak.  It would
support LDAP, but also other hierarchical content structures.

	--- Noel




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