[squeak-dev] Re: [ANN] Filesystem 1.0
James Hayes
james at funkyfiddler.co.uk
Mon Nov 23 20:19:56 UTC 2009
> Hey, thanks for this link. It *is* quite interesting; they're definitely
> trying accomplish the same sort of thing that I am. I had hoped to steal
> some of their terminology, but... Reference maybe sort of meaningless
> but it's better than FileObject. :-)
>
> One thing that is interesting is that they use URIs, with made-up schema
> that map to their filesystem providers. So a Reference to a file in a
> MemoryFilesystem would have a url like
>
> ram:/path/to/my/file.
>
> And files inside zip archives look like:
>
> file:///path/to/archive.zip!/path/to/file
>
> Java folks expect to us URIs everywhere. I wonder how well that would
> work in Smalltalk.
>
> Colin
>
Keeping with the theme of URI's, would Resource be a better name?
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