fs filesystem fslocator

> On Jan 19, 2012, at 2:05 41PM, Camillo Bruni wrote:
>> I am currently doing a small refactoring of FSFilesystem.
>> Does anybody need explicitly FSLocator?
>>
>> Otherwise I'd vouch for removing it..
>>
>>
>> best
>> cami
>>
> Why?
>
> Seems kinda nice to me to be able to specify locations relative to image/vm/desktop etc without having to worry about those locations changing when you load the image on a different platform.

> On 2012-01-19, at 14:21, Henrik Johansen wrote:
>> On Jan 19, 2012, at 2:05 41PM, Camillo Bruni wrote:
>>> I am currently doing a small refactoring of FSFilesystem.
>>> Does anybody need explicitly FSLocator?
>>>
>>> Otherwise I'd vouch for removing it..
>>>
>>>
>>> best
>>> cami
>>>
>> Why?
>>
>> Seems kinda nice to me to be able to specify locations relative to image/vm/desktop etc without having to worry about those locations changing when you load the image on a different platform.
>
> Sure sure, I wouldn't remove the functionality. But I would rather like to introduce a custom PathType to reflect named paths.
>
> I just feel uncomfortable with FSLocator being almost the same as an FSReference but they're not completely interchangeable.
>
> cami