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: |
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|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
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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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