[UI] Streams - a beginning

[Matthew Fulmer]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 01:00:31PM -0500, Bill Schwab wrote:
> I respectfully disagree.  AFAICT, the I/O group is dormant, and the main
> list has made its feelings clear.
> 
> However, there might be an argument for those interested to take this to
> the I/O list.  Any takers?

I subscribed to the io list

the IO list may be appropriate, but the Flow list is probably
better. Note that there are currently two alternative stream
libraries in squeak (alternative meaning not in squeak.org)

1. Flow, which requires a plugin and supports many kinds of
   external streams, like USB streams and MIDI streams, in
   addition to collection streams and file streams. It is a
   major component of Spoon, and is not compatable with squeak's
   default stream library. See http://netjam.org/flow and
   http://netjam.org/spoon
2. Nile is a refactoring of the squeak stream library. It
   provides It does collection streams and file streams in two
   API's. The new API is much simpler than the squeak library,
   and is incompatable with it. The old API is compatable with
   squeak stream library. Nile uses traits to share code between
   the two API's. It does not provide any capabilities beyond
   the squeak libraries, as far as I can tell. See
   http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2007-November/122481.html

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