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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
Subject: Re: Ada.Directories problems, a summary
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 14:05:07 +0000
Date: 2009-01-01T14:05:07+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.64.0901011400350.21104@abril> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17rohiaha9ome$.1gz45no0bqro2.dlg@40tude.net>

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

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|"After experimenting with Ada.Directories I collected the issues I think  |
|must be addressed to make Ada.Directories more usable:                    |
|                                                                          |
|1. Name encoding. Either String versions should be UTF-8 or else replaced |
|with Wide_Wide_String ones.                                               |
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|[..]                                                                      |
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|7. Version number in addition to Containing_Directory, Base_Name and      |
|Extension. (Files have version numbers under VMS)"                        |
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Hello,

A different name encoding scheme might suit some other file system
type better, but may be such peculiarities would be better dealt with
libraries specific to those platforms instead of a fairly general
Ada standard.

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|"Any comments?"                                                           |
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Thank you for compiling the list.

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|"P.S. Happy New Year!"                                                    |
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One can hope. Happy new year.

With kind regards,
Colin Paul Gloster



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-01 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-01 11:16 Ada.Directories problems, a summary Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-01 13:47 ` Ivan Levashew
2009-01-01 14:15   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-02 14:22     ` Ivan Levashew
2009-01-02 14:49       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-02 22:33         ` Colin Paul Gloster
2009-01-03  9:08           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-05 10:01       ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-01-02 22:57     ` Randy Brukardt
2009-01-03  9:39       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-06  1:23         ` Randy Brukardt
2009-01-06  1:23         ` Randy Brukardt
2009-01-06 10:41           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-01 13:56 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-01 14:05 ` Colin Paul Gloster [this message]
2009-01-01 14:29   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-01-01 20:41 ` anon
2009-01-02 11:22   ` Colin Paul Gloster
2009-01-02 10:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-01-02 11:09   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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