Hi ned

is this changeset in 3.4 already? Will it be? I hope:)

Stef


On mercredi, novembre 27, 2002, at 04:58  pm, Ned Konz wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 November 2002 12:04 am, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
>> One of the problem I got with the file list
>> is that you would like to be able to:
>>
>>         - find a file containing a script that loads a bunch of
>> other files - then parametrizing the script so that it uses the
>> current location indicated by the file list
>>
>> with that we could do really easily loading scripts for end users.
>>
>> I did not have the time to look at that but if somebody has a
>> solution I'm interested.
>
> The "file in" action of the file list could/should use the
> #fileInFor:announcing: method I put in the SARInstaller change set.
> This way the FileList itself could respond to messages like
> "fileInFromFileNamed:" and so on. That is, the fileInFor:announcing:
> sets up the context so that "self" is set to the first argument
> (which could be the FileList itself, or some installer object).
>
> So you could have file-in scripts like:
>
> self fileIn: 'xyz.st'.	"relative path"
> self fileIn: 'abc/def.st'.
>
> You'd run into the same problems I did with the SARInstaller, though,
> with differing pathname construction on multiple platforms. One
> suggestion I'd have for this is to use zip/unix like paths and
> translate to the local file system (again, look in SARInstaller).
>
> -- 
> Ned Konz
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>
>
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