[UI] Streams - a beginning

[Bill Schwab]

Damien,

I have been aware of Flow for some time, but have reasons to avoid it,
at least for now.  When I tried it some time ago, Nile did not raise any
type of exception on reading off the end of a stream (and AFAIK, I was
using its streams vs. Squeak's).  I have since seen that is supposed to
work, so I will take another look.

Bill





Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
University of Florida
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>>> damien.cassou at gmail.com 11/27/2007 2:04 AM >>>
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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