Re: [Hla-stdlib-talk] HLA StdLib project Task List

[<rh...@cs...>]

> To get things kind of organized, we might want to put together a "task
> list" of items that project participants could work on.  Some  items that
> have come up recently:
>
>   1)  fileio.append implementation not consistent

Yes.

>   2)  fileio.eof code is "crufty" according to Frank :)

The whole concept of how testing for end of file needs to be rethought. We
may want to clean this up a tiny bit and then develop a new fileio package
that does I/O completely differently.

>   3)  Windows-only functions (fileio.move and copy, etc) being  removed
> from the library.  Randy, could you give us a complete  list of these?

conv.cstr and conv.a_cstr are being deprecated. Though there are
equivalent routines in the str package.

Also, fileio.cd, .gwd, .delete, .size, and several others are being
deprecated and moved into a new "filesys" namespace. It would be nice to
have a *lot* of new routines added to the filesys module. In particular,
one that would be nice to have *immediately* is a directory iterator that
returns strings containing all the filenames in a given directory.


In other news: I am working away on the fileio module right now, doing a
lot of clean up. I'm hoping that in about a week I'll be able to post the
code and we can get started on the multi-lingual header files and unit
tests for that module.

I would advise against *any* modifications to the existing library code.
Almost every routine is going to have at least minor changes when I begin
posting new code. That means that any effort expended right now may be
wasted.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde