[squeak-dev] Xtreams's FileDirectory dependence

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Wed Apr 17 20:25:46 UTC 2013


On 17 April 2013 20:14, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
> On 2013-04-17, at 7:57 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Xtreams depends on FileDirectory in at least three places, all in the
>> Xtreams-Terminals package. (Three messages on FileUrl, #appending,
>> #reading, #writing; two tests in XTFileReadingWritingTest >> #setUp
>> and #tearDown)
>>
>> Pharo 2.0 has no FileDirectory. So it seems like the easiest (not
>> necessarily simple, nor right) thing to is to break that out into
>> Xtreams-Terminals-Squeak and Xtreams-Terminals-Pharo packages, and
>> similarly for the tests.
>
> The usual convention would be Xtreams-Squeak-Terminals and
> Xtreams-Pharo-Terminals.
>
> But actually, I'd kind of like to see separate packages for
> FileDirectory terminals and FileSystem terminals. The FS terminals
> would be useful in Squeak as well.

That's a good idea. It's also less divisive while being more precise to boot.

frank


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