New FileSystem

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Dec 18 08:48:17 UTC 2004


I agree with Avi.
So please think about transition.

>> Flow is A Good Thing. As always, the hard part is persuading a large
>> group of people to adopt something new, especially since it is a
>> replacement not an add on. I don't see any particular problem with
>> replacing all the prims, especially since they're in plugin(s) but
>> getting package owners to rewrite to use new streams and so on....
>> I've never been able to think of a way round that part.
>
> I've advocated this in the past without any success, but I might as
> well try again: the way to get people to adopt Flow is to make it
> possible for them to use it side by side with the existing streams, so
> that they can migrate to it incrementally without anything needing to
> be broken during the process.  All this means, I think, is prefixing
> Flow's classes so that they can coexist in the image with the old
> Stream implementation.  Yes, there's something aesthetically
> unpleasing about having FlowStream or FStream instead of just Stream,
> but if adoption is actually a goal it seems a small price to pay.
>
> Avi
>




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