[Seaside-dev] Re: [Seaside Commits] Seaside 2.9: Seaside-Platform-mls.65.mcz

[Michael Lucas-Smith]

Julian Fitzell wrote:
> I guess that would be fine as long as there are tests defining the
> protocol that is expected of the returned FileName object. Without
> those tests or a WAFileName object (also with tests), a platform would
> have no idea what they needed to implement or whether their
> implementation was correct.
>   
Okay, I'll spend some more time on getting this right.

On another point, my publishes of Seaside-Platform do the following:
66 - undoes the float change
65 - adds filenameNamed:
64 - adds the float change

All of these are incorrect, is the procedure to publish a new head 67 
that would remove filenameNamed: or to rewind back to lr.63?

> Are you doing this because you want to use Seaside-FileSystem or just
> because it's there? If the former, go nuts. If the latter, we should
> check whether anyone wants to keep it - I don't think we were
> currently very happy with the coverage of the Sport Platform and it's
> an abstract class with no concrete implementations currently. Maybe we
> should just move the FileSystem stuff out to another repository or
> delete it altogether. Philippe?
>
>   
It's the former. We added WAExternalFileLibrary for Seaside 2.8 in VW 
and people found it really useful. This package provides that same(ish) 
capability. Given that people found it useful in 2.8, I suspect they'll 
continue to find it useful in 2.9.
The package comes from Seaside29LGPL, presumably because it uses Sport.

I'm happy to continue working on it to get its test coverage up.

Cheers,
Michael