And the registration mechanism in FileServices was intended to replace
the one in FileList.

So it is like you buy a new Kenwood and still keep and old blender (or
accessory parts of it) around.

It is a matter of putting old things into the dustbin and moving the
bin out of the house to be emptied.

And active effort is needed to clean up and this is what people do
here all the time. Not a new issue. You have to work on a room by room
or shelf by shelf basis.

The question is what to do so that the cleaning task of FileList /
FileList2 remains manageable.



On 10/5/17, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/17, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I note that most references to FileList are for registering/unregistering
>> a
>> specific tool as a service for a specific fileType...
>> So the goal is to make file services modular/pluggable/extendable.
>> What I don't understand is that FileList seems to duplicate FileServices
>> code (see for example implementors of #registerFileReader)...
>
>
> FileServices was introduced with Squeak 3.9 in November 2006
>
>  http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1001
>
>> And that there is a random mixture of usage:
>>
>>     ChangeList class>>initialize
>>         FileList registerFileReader: self
>>
>>     ChangeSet class>>initialize
>>         "ChangeSet initialize"
>>         AllChangeSets == nil ifTrue:
>>             [AllChangeSets := OrderedCollection new].
>>         self gatherChangeSets.
>>         FileServices registerFileReader: self.
>>
>> What do you suggest instead? Who should survive?
>
>> P.S.: it seems that we abused a bit of living system metaphor.
>> It's like we wanted to create diversity in order to multiply the chances
>> of
>> squeak to survive ;)
>> Unfortunately, natural selection of code doesn't obey fair rules:
>> - code tends to bloat and complexify over years
>>   that could be like our cells that gradually degenerate...
>> - but the worse code (the most complex) tend to survive longer.
>>   this is because it becomes more and more complex to change it without
>> breaking features.
>>   and breaking features is frowned upon...
>>
>> In biology, the immune system also help eliminating own degenerated
>> cells.
>> I don't see anything equivalent in Squeak.
>> So the whole organism is in danger if we don't help the bad cells to die
>> ;)
>>
>> 2017-10-05 20:04 GMT+02:00 tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:
>>
>>>
>>> > On 04-10-2017, at 6:48 PM, Bob Arning <arning315 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> >>
>>>
>>> > Well, the whole point is to provide a view of the contents of a file
>>> which you can read, edit and save. The rest is just how to get that
>>> content
>>> in the first place. So, it's a StringHolder with some extra buttons
>>> attached.
>>>
>>> Ah, right, as previously mentioned a case of is-a or has-a. I much
>>> prefer
>>> has-a myself.
>>>
>>>
>>> tim
>>> --
>>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>>> Oxymorons: New classic
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>