A wish for the File Team

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Nov 5 17:38:36 UTC 2005


>
>> the big one - it's a new way of doing the whole socket/sewrial/ 
>> midi/file thing and so involves people spending the effort to  
>> learn it and dump the old code and habits.
>>
>
> I think "dump the old code" is the crux of the issue here. The  
> problem isn't so much that it's a new way of doing things as that  
> it can't co-exist with the old way of doing things. This means that  
> switching to Flow can't be done gradually, and so any package  
> maintainer that moves his package to use Flow instantly makes  
> himself incompatible with all other packages that use files,  
> sockets, streams etc.

Ok I was always a bit concerned that "we ignored" the work of craig  
and this is good that you mentioned that.
I remember now that this was the key point.

Stef



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