The problem is that now we should not open a new task.
I would like to close the pending ones:
debugger
rpackage
ring (methodreference and friends)
opal
May be for 1.5. now for 1.4 we should finish the current ones.
stef
On Nov 19, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote:
> As I just wrote a few days ago, you must use
>
> #fileStreamDo:
>
> or
>
> #fileStreamWriteable:do:
>
> to get the traditional system stream that supports ascii/binary and
> various convertors.
>
> The streams built into FileSystem are minimal ANSI streams. They are
> supposed to be wrapped by something more powerful. I was told that
> Xtreams works well with FileSystem. Maybe Nile could be made to work
> as well?
>
> Lukas
>
> On 19 November 2011 17:03, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr> wrote:
>> Doru
>>
>> FS should be usable so if you have suggestions and code please send them.
>>
>> Stef
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks. I know that the ByteArray is the data structure, but I would like
>>> to get a stream that decodes the information and lets me traverse
>>> characters, rather than bytes.
>>>
>>> By retrieving "aReference readStream contents asString" I first get all the
>>> ByteArray in memory, and then create another string from it also in memory.
>>> If my file is large, this is not a feasible solution.
>>>
>>> Like Norbert said, I would like to get some support to have a converter in
>>> the stream.
>>>
>>> For example, outside of Filesystem, we can do something like:
>>>
>>> FileStream readOnlyFileNamed: 'aFileName'.
>>> stream converter: TextConverter default.
>>>
>>> So, I guess, the only way right now is to not use the FSStream, but to get
>>> from an FSReference to the FileStream.
>>>
>>> Do, we want to bring the FileStream closer to FileSystem?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Doru
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 18 Nov 2011, at 07:41, Max Leske wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Doru
>>>>
>>>> The last time I used FS that was the way to do it.
>>>> Maybe what you want could be accomplished by adding convenience methods to
>>>> FSReadStream like #stringContents or something. Anyway, I agree with
>>>> Norbert that a ByteArray is really the data structure that you should
>>>> expect to get from a file.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Max
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 17.11.2011, at 22:01, Tudor Girba wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using Filesystem, and I would like to get a read stream that
>>>>> provides a string instead of bytes.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I do "aReference readStream", I get a FSReadStream which is a byte
>>>>> stream.
>>>>>
>>>>> To get to the string, I now do the ugly: "aReference readStream contents
>>>>> asString"
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a cleverer way?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Doru
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> www.tudorgirba.com
>>>>>
>>>>> "What we can governs what we wish."
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> www.tudorgirba.com
>>>
>>> Things happen when they happen,
>>> not when you talk about them happening.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Lukas Renggli
> www.lukas-renggli.ch
>
