Mac filetype (was Re: Type Safety (was Re: fun andempowerment))

Raab, Andreas Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Fri Feb 4 02:52:23 UTC 2000


> I agree: distributing the Mac .sources and .changes files with
> a file type other than TEXT would be an excellent idea.
>
> Although these files do contain text, they should really
> be considered a database of source code whose format is
> understood by Squeak. That format happens to be the same on all
> platforms regardless of the platform line-end conventions.
> 
> Since it is seldom useful to directly edit these files with a
> text editor (indeed, they are big enough to be unopenable by
> many text editors), we lose nothing by changing their file
> type and we might prevent a few inadvertent file-transfer mistakes.

Personally I think we should embed the changes in the image for a release
distribution. All these problems with broken changes/sources would then
vanish in a puff of logic. And Squeak knows how to handle it's files so it
could set the file types on Macs to whatever seems appropriate.

  Andreas





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