[Ann] Nile 0.8.0 available

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Tue May 15 20:16:29 UTC 2007


message received.

>>    setFileName: "C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\msgothic.ttf"
> Unless you are using something like a URI filenaming system you  
> should never, ever, ever, ever. Ever,ever. Evereverever. *Ever* use  
> strings like that to make filenames/paths. Build paths a step at a  
> time with #directoryNamed: and fileNamed:. Allowing #fileNamed: to  
> attempt to parse mangled platform related strings was a serious  
> error. Platform fiddle-faddle for filenames is just horrific.

we should look at URI instead of a morbid look at FileStream :)



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