On Thursday 24 July 2003 04:46 pm, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> When I enter an ftp server and try to open a code browser on a
> remote file, everything chokes up because the remote filename, with
> server and all, is looked up in a local directory. Has anyone ever
> looked at this?

Yes. I believe we discussed this way back when the service registry 
went in.

There were a number of pre-existing file list services that expected 
file names. So that's the default argument to the service. But Bob 
Arning added SimpleServiceEntry>>argumentGetter: back in CS 5001 to 
make project opening work from the file list. With this you can have 
your service call back to the file list and ask it for its directory 
and file name.

Since no one went back and made similar changes where it would make 
sense, I think the only service that does it right is defined in 
ProjectViewMorph>>#serviceOpenProjectFromFile .

Of course, what would make all of this much nicer is if we had 
consistently used URLs there.

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