Re: [Alephmodular-devel] TS Draft: File abstraction

[Timothy C. <tco...@ha...>]

OK, first off, this is really neat, being able to actually understand 
how all this stuff works.  Seems to me that armed with this sort of 
knowledge, it shouldn't be hard to track down the dreaded out-of-sync 
bugs once and for all...anyway, I only understand a little more than 
half of this, but one thing I think I got was a "what are we doing 
about resource forks/files in the future?"  Am I right?

Well, even if I'm not, I'd like to cast a vote against them.  It would 
appear that using resource forks/files, while it makes it a bit easier 
on Macs, makes it more confusing on other platforms, and they're not 
even properly part of OS X anymore.  So it seems like it would make 
sense to kill them, and use formats that everyone can use equally well 
(or badly :-)

What do the important people (read: the coders) think?

Timothy Collett

He who asks is a fool for five minues. He who doesn't ask is a fool 
forever.