For VW, I would put your File and Directory in a Rio namespace.
-david

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Keith Hodges <keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Janko Mivšek wrote:
> > Keith Hodges wrote:
> >> Claus Kick wrote:
> >>> Keith Hodges wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I like the original #asRio, and I wonder if there are any other
> >>>> smalltalks which already use #asFile and #asDirectory, and classes
> >>>> File
> >>>> and Directory. Nevertheless I can see why people would prefer the
> >>>> latter.
> >>> Visual Smalltalk uses both Directory and File.
> >>>
> >> Now there's a shame
> >>> VW seems to treat Files and Directories like Java does.
> >> which is ?
> >
> > Keith, you can look at Sport package and its SpFilename which is,
> > well, almost complete copy of VW's Filename, yet much simpler than
> > current Squeak offerings. SpFilename deals with both files and
> > directories.
> I am not sure what you want me to get from looking at Sport. I can see
> that it is relatively simple. Sport is like Fileman in that it is a
> layer on top of squeak's FileDirectory. This differs from Rio in that
> Rio operates directly to the primitives.
>
> So I think Rio could perhaps deserve to use class names "File" and
> "Directory", but  portability could be an issue.
>
> Rio's goals, inspired by Rio from Ruby.
>
> 1. Ground up replacement for the much hated (by me) FileDirectory (i.e.
> works at the primitive level)
> 2. Identical Remote / Local api
> 3. Handle recursive directory traversing, and interact nicely in
> collections
> 4. Identical compressed/uncompressed api
> 5. Treat a zip archive like a filesystem with the same api.
>
> Does VW have "File" or does it have "Filename" I am confused.
> > SpFilename is not perfect
> The plan for Rio was to see if it could be an ideal solution for Squeak.
>
> The next question is how portable can it be.
>
> Keith
>
>
> > , but from seeing most of Smalltalks and their file handling it is
> > IMHO still the best.
> but you are biased, as am I ;-)
> > Best regards
> > Janko
> >
> >
>
>
>
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