Sticking to the lowest common denominator only to cater for other filesystems sound like a bad idea to me - we'll be stuck with 8.3 filenames then.
I think the way this was solved in BeOS was pretty nice. A file had a type/creator code there as a special attribute. A file "inherited" from a different platform would be sniffed by a low-priority background thread, which employed several heuristics to determine the file type - looking at magic bytes in the header, or looking at the file extension as a last resort. Files which already had the attributes were left alone. Even if the sniffer thread couldn't tell Objective-C files and Matlab files apart, you could say all your .m files are Objective-C source code files and manually change the attribute for the Matlab .m files you have lying around (or the other way around, depending on which is more prevalent). I even believe the paricular Be engineer responsible for the file system work at Apple nowadays (hello dbg!) Cheers, Sander_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
