Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> That's the thing - I don't agree that you really want to define any such
> policy across all applications, by fiat. 

It isn't by fiat, its merely a change to default behaviour on a well 
discussed subject with both sides expressing their views. From that 
understanding a consensus opinion has been formed with only (to my 
recollection) one dissenting opinion expressed. That's far from fiat.

_And_ its only for applications which choose to use the _default_ 
behaviour. Those applications which do not choose (for whatever reason) 
to use the default behaviour are free to do so.

This is a well thought out and well thought of (by most, who expressed 
an opinion) default behaviour. We understand what you are saying. There 
just happens to be a disagreement. That is unfortunate, but it would be 
more unfortunate if in situations like this if the Squeak community were 
to become immobilized.

Today you're the dissenter, tommorow someone else. No one need get 
offended or upset. Its the way it works.

Defaults aren't permanent. As long as the change is well thought out, 
consequences understood and a majority agree, it is not a heinous thing 
to change one. Sometimes it would be heinous to not change one.

And by its nature changing a default changes everything that uses the 
default. Its not a fiat, its a design decision.

Jimmie Houchin


> What I am suggesting is that we
> actually implement the specific policies that make sense for different
> applications. FileList is the obvious one. If that's what makes sense,
> we can change every single application currently in the image to use
> CRLFFS. As long as applications that do conversions make it explicit in
> their code.
> 
> What's the improvement? people get the behavior they want in
> applications. I thought that's what you were after. Just to clarify, I
> am proposing to implement the change suggested in in all interfaces for
> file opening. Concretely, this means in FileDirectory, too.
> 
> Daniel