Alternative directory/file classes?
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Sun Mar 11 12:22:44 UTC 2007
On Mar 11, 2007, at 9:17 , Andreas Raab wrote:
> Hi -
>
> Recently I got (once again ;-) horribly disgusted by the mess in
> the current file/directory classes in Squeak and started looking
> for alternatives. Besides Flow (which I knew about but which is a
> bit too far-reaching for what I'm after) I was particularly
> impressed by looking at FileMan which seemed a nice and simple
> interface to do all the practical things that you need when dealing
> with files/directories. A couple of questions related to it:
> 1) Is anyone using FileMan in production environments? How does it
> hold up in practice?
> 2) I presume FileMan still requires FileDirectory and friends in
> all their splendid uglyness. Has anyone looked at making FileMan
> the only interface to access directories?
> 3) Are there any other directory/file interfaces I should be
> looking at in my quest for a bit more cleanliness in these areas?
FileMan and Rio have been discussed on the 3.10 release team list. I
tried to pursue them to move the discussion to squeak-dev, without
success, yet.
- Bert -
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