Could you point me to what's the best way to install latest FS into
trunk?  Thanks!

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  Colin, may we please not be at odds here?  I'm on your side.
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> I'm sorry, I didn't mean for that post to be so confrontational. I misread
> your post as shifting the goal-posts so that FileSystem wouldn't be
> acceptable unless it performs like your tuned-for-Banyan additions to
> FileDirectory.
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> There's certainly room to optimize the tree-walking code in Filesystem, so
> we may be able to meet your needs that way.
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> On the other hand, there are layers of indirection in Filesystem that aren't
> present in FileDirectory. Filesystem works with many kinds of directory
> trees—on disk, in-memory, inside a zip file, inside a git repository etc. It
> also has whole-tree operations that need to be able to customize the tree
> walking algorithm. For example, copying a tree needs to visit directories
> before their contents, while deleting a tree needs to visit directories
> after their contents. So from the point of view of Filesystem,
> #directoryTreeDo: is *not* a very general operation, it's quite specific,
> and tuned for a particular use-case. It may not be possible to optimize
> Filesystem's tree-walking code to the same level of memory efficiency
> without sacrificing generality.
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> But that's not a show-stopper! We could make a method like #directoryTreeDo:
> just for Banyan, or Banyan could keep on using FileDirectory. It's not like
> FileDirectory would be removed in 4.5, and even when it finally does get
> removed, it would still be available as a compatibility package.
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> Again, my apologies for the over-reaction.
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> Colin
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