Re: Interpretation of extensions different from Unix/Linux?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:27:26 +0000 (UTC), tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>> And there is no way to specify the directory where files to be stored? It
>> is impossible to add such directories? It cannot play anything from
>> mountable drives?
>    Who uses your "typical" programs?

Don't you use anything like MS-Explorer, Konqueror, Midnight Commander? You
must a be Jedi Knight then... (:-))

> Programmers?  My users know about
> television - shows, episodes, seasons, DVDs, clips - but I certainly
> wouldn't want them to futz around with particular files, whose content and
> purpose they don't understand, on a live system transmitting TV to the
> whole city.

Forget about files. How playlists are organized? As a catalogue, right? Do
you provide user an ability to see what is it? Can user find *any* movie in
the catalogue? If yes, then this is what I call typical. You have browsing
of a catalogue and you can enumerate *all* its items. Ada.Directories has
not and cannot.

>> OK, I give up. All these file-manager programs seem useless and untypical.
>> No need to write them in Ada.

>   Ada is good here for error prevention/detection before run-time, error
> reporting at run-time, and, in the part that actually plays video and
> audio, timing control and tasking.  Of course it also has features that
> make programming simply easier than some languages I won't mention.

This does not answer my question. Is file manager a typical application?
How can it be designed in Ada using Ada.Directories? Let us ignore GUI
issues.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de