Re: Ada.Directories problems, a summary

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

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:57:07 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote
> 
>> After experimenting with Ada.Directories I collected the issues I think
>> must be addressed to make Ada.Directories more usable:
> 
> You should send your suggestions to Ada-Comment as a comment on AI05-0049 
> (which is about various additions to Ada.Directories). I'm supposed to 
> working on that in the next month or so, and I wouldn't mind a discussion on 
> it. But not here...it should be done in the context of the AI so it can be 
> recorded there.

I don't have a concrete proposal, it was merely complains than something
constructive. So I wished to hear what other people think about it. At
least to grope after the range of changes felt necessary/desired. For
example, I would like to have different string types for simple name,
directory name, full (absolute) name. There are other general design
issues. Like a clean separation of physical and path/name-only file
operations. Desired? Possible? (in the context of case-insensitive issue
under Windows)

Thank you for the AI number. 

BTW, can Ada-Comment become a news group rather than a mailing list?

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