Esteban clone, Pavel clone, Clement clone, Guillermo clone....

> Hi Stef,
>
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 08:48:36AM +0200, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
>> Dear Pharoers
>>
>> there are many things that we would like to achieve to offer you a much better
>> system but we cannot clone ourselves.
>>
>> Please let us know if you want to participate building better tools
>> around for example Iceberg.
>>
>> Stef
>
> As there haven't been any other replies yet...
>
> I've been using Iceberg for a few months without any problems.  I've
> just started trying out Esteban's suggested PR process for Pharo 7 and
> am starting to see issues.
>
> I've got some FileSystem patches which I would like to get in, but once
> they're done I will hopefully have a chance to look at Iceberg.
>
> Just FYI, the FileSystem patches are:
>
> - FileRefence>>moveTo: works across disks
> - FileReference>>/ is more intuitive, i.e. accept directory deliminators
>   in the paramter, and make path canonicalisation consistent (also
>   below).
> - FileReference>>= considers files equal if they point to the same file
>   / directory.
> - Path canonicalisation has been tightened up (there's still some room
>   for improvement).
> - isSymlink works, and all attributes from the libc stat() / lstat()
>   calls are accessible (about 11 new attributes).
>
> And file attribute operations and directory enumarating are slightly
> faster than before.  This is a fairly major patch, introducing a new VM
> plugin (which is why I waited for Pharo 7).
>
> And of course, thanks to everyone who has helped make Pharo what it is
> today.
>
> Cheers,
> Alistair
>

> Stef
>
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Alistair Grant <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Hi Stef,
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 08:48:36AM +0200, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
> >> Dear Pharoers
> >>
> >> there are many things that we would like to achieve to offer you a much better
> >> system but we cannot clone ourselves.
> >>
> >> Please let us know if you want to participate building better tools
> >> around for example Iceberg.
> >>
> >> Stef
> >
> > As there haven't been any other replies yet...
> >
> > I've been using Iceberg for a few months without any problems.  I've
> > just started trying out Esteban's suggested PR process for Pharo 7 and
> > am starting to see issues.
> >
> > I've got some FileSystem patches which I would like to get in, but once
> > they're done I will hopefully have a chance to look at Iceberg.
> >
> > Just FYI, the FileSystem patches are:
> >
> > - FileRefence>>moveTo: works across disks
> > - FileReference>>/ is more intuitive, i.e. accept directory deliminators
> >   in the paramter, and make path canonicalisation consistent (also
> >   below).
> > - FileReference>>= considers files equal if they point to the same file
> >   / directory.
> > - Path canonicalisation has been tightened up (there's still some room
> >   for improvement).
> > - isSymlink works, and all attributes from the libc stat() / lstat()
> >   calls are accessible (about 11 new attributes).
> >
> > And file attribute operations and directory enumarating are slightly
> > faster than before.  This is a fairly major patch, introducing a new VM
> > plugin (which is why I waited for Pharo 7).
> >
> > And of course, thanks to everyone who has helped make Pharo what it is
> > today.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Alistair

> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 08:13:10AM +0200, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
>> Thanks for FileSystem. I was thinking that it would be great to do
>> another pass on the comments.
>
> I've made significant changes to the Path class comments (of course
> there's still room for improvement).
>
>
>> I would like to start to convert the example in comment to use the new
>> >>> convention.
>>
>> I do not know how to push fixes using the new process. I will discuss
>> with marcus to know if he knows.
>> Once I know we will focus on the FileSystem fixes.
>
> I haven't yet submitted the patch which includes the Path class
> comments.  I've submitted my first pull request and once I've got the
> process down will work my way through the others.
>
> Cheers,
> Alistair
>
>
>> Stef
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Alistair Grant <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> > Hi Stef,
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 08:48:36AM +0200, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
>> >> Dear Pharoers
>> >>
>> >> there are many things that we would like to achieve to offer you a much better
>> >> system but we cannot clone ourselves.
>> >>
>> >> Please let us know if you want to participate building better tools
>> >> around for example Iceberg.
>> >>
>> >> Stef
>> >
>> > As there haven't been any other replies yet...
>> >
>> > I've been using Iceberg for a few months without any problems.  I've
>> > just started trying out Esteban's suggested PR process for Pharo 7 and
>> > am starting to see issues.
>> >
>> > I've got some FileSystem patches which I would like to get in, but once
>> > they're done I will hopefully have a chance to look at Iceberg.
>> >
>> > Just FYI, the FileSystem patches are:
>> >
>> > - FileRefence>>moveTo: works across disks
>> > - FileReference>>/ is more intuitive, i.e. accept directory deliminators
>> >   in the paramter, and make path canonicalisation consistent (also
>> >   below).
>> > - FileReference>>= considers files equal if they point to the same file
>> >   / directory.
>> > - Path canonicalisation has been tightened up (there's still some room
>> >   for improvement).
>> > - isSymlink works, and all attributes from the libc stat() / lstat()
>> >   calls are accessible (about 11 new attributes).
>> >
>> > And file attribute operations and directory enumarating are slightly
>> > faster than before.  This is a fairly major patch, introducing a new VM
>> > plugin (which is why I waited for Pharo 7).
>> >
>> > And of course, thanks to everyone who has helped make Pharo what it is
>> > today.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Alistair
>