On May 14, 2007, at 21:02 , subbukk wrote:

> On Monday 14 May 2007 10:44 pm, Damien Cassou wrote:
>> Nile has nothing to do with File/Directory classes. It's only for
>> streaming. Yes, you can stream over a file, but our implementation
>> relies on FileDirectory. What Nile aims to replace is ReadStream,
>> WriteStream, StandardFileStream, SocketStream, ZipReadStream...
> Nile passes the argument it receives via its
> NSAbstractFileStream>>setFileName:  method to file primitives for  
> opening a
> file, thereby assuming it is a string. This would force callers (see
> TTFFontDescription>>setDefault) to use paths like :
>
>    setFileName: "C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\msgothic.ttf"
>
> to open a stream on a file. This would affect portability.  I  
> believe the
> issue is traceable to FileDirectory failing to hide platform- 
> specific aspects
> in pathnames. I could be wrong, though.

If you are concerned with portability - we have had good experience  
with Michael's URI package. This lets you use URIs throughout and not  
worry about platform paths.

- Bert -