[naviserver-devel] ns_cp and friends?

[Zoran V. <zv...@ar...>]

Hi!

I'm currently after implemeting the Tcl VFS layer
in the code and I stumbled in some dusty code corners...

Following commands I never actually used and their
functionality is already well-done by the Tcl alone:

  ns_cp              (file copy)
  ns_mkdir           (file mkdir)
  ns_rmdir           (file delete)
  ns_unlink          (file delete)
  ns_normalizepath   (file normalize)
  ns_link            (file link -hard)
  ns_symlink         (file link -symbolic)
  ns_rename          (file rename)

I do not know why we would like to maintain those
commands when Tcl is already giving us a good and
maintained interface to the needed functionalitly?

I have some ideas:

A.
I could just trash those commands (some of you
will probably not like it, although this would be
the best option).

B.
I could re-route those calls to their corresponding
Tcl commands by a means of a tiny wrapper and emit
a warning message in the log file that those commands
are deprecated.

C.
I could leave the internal code as-is and just emit
the warning message in the log that those commands
are deprecated.

D. I could throw error on those commands telling the
user to use the Tcl equivalent.

E.
I could leave them as-is i.e. they will not be VFS savvy.

Now, were do you want to go today?
Zoran