Ah, thanks for clarifying that. That should make it possible to change
monticello to load stuff from remote ftp repositories. Now if I can get
it to write them there, too, I'll be one happy camper.

Daniel

Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 24 July 2003 04:46 pm, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> > When I enter an ftp server and try to open a code browser on a
> > remote file, everything chokes up because the remote filename, with
> > server and all, is looked up in a local directory. Has anyone ever
> > looked at this?
> 
> Yes. I believe we discussed this way back when the service registry 
> went in.
> 
> There were a number of pre-existing file list services that expected 
> file names. So that's the default argument to the service. But Bob 
> Arning added SimpleServiceEntry>>argumentGetter: back in CS 5001 to 
> make project opening work from the file list. With this you can have 
> your service call back to the file list and ask it for its directory 
> and file name.
> 
> Since no one went back and made similar changes where it would make 
> sense, I think the only service that does it right is defined in 
> ProjectViewMorph>>#serviceOpenProjectFromFile .
> 
> Of course, what would make all of this much nicer is if we had 
> consistently used URLs there.
> 
> -- 
> Ned Konz
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