On Mar 11, 2007, at 9:17 , Andreas Raab wrote:

> Hi -
>
> Recently I got (once again ;-) horribly disgusted by the mess in  
> the current file/directory classes in Squeak and started looking  
> for alternatives. Besides Flow (which I knew about but which is a  
> bit too far-reaching for what I'm after) I was particularly  
> impressed by looking at FileMan which seemed a nice and simple  
> interface to do all the practical things that you need when dealing  
> with files/directories. A couple of questions related to it:
> 1) Is anyone using FileMan in production environments? How does it  
> hold up in practice?
> 2) I presume FileMan still requires FileDirectory and friends in  
> all their splendid uglyness. Has anyone looked at making FileMan  
> the only interface to access directories?
> 3) Are there any other directory/file interfaces I should be  
> looking at in my quest for a bit more cleanliness in these areas?

FileMan and Rio have been discussed on the 3.10 release team list. I  
tried to pursue them to move the discussion to squeak-dev, without  
success, yet.

- Bert -