[UI] Streams - a beginning
Damien Cassou
damien.cassou at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 07:04:12 UTC 2007
2007/11/27, Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com>:
> 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
Moreover, Nile is maintained by someone who gives the code to the
community and let it play with it and commit directly to the main
repository. Nile has a lot of unit tests too. If you want to play with
it, feel free. You can ask me any question.
Bye
--
Damien Cassou
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