Hi all. I know we usually run on forgiveness instead of permission,
but I'm suggesting a big change (or extension, anyway), so I wanted to run the
ideas by you all before I put the effort in. If I don't get feedback, I'll
just make the changes.
The first thing I wanted to suggest was that in S16, the OS-specific
stuff be split out into separate roles. I suspect this is mostly
non-controversial, so I'll do that unless someone complains.
My second thought is that we need to specify tree objects (see
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language@perl.org/msg28579.html ). I'll put
them in S16 unless someone complains.
My third thought is that it would be very useful also to have
date/time objects that integrate well with eg. ctime, mtime, and the like; I'd
start with Time::Piece as a model.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Time-Piece/Piece.pm
My final question is, since people are now getting somewhat familiar
with the "file:" URI scheme (ie. file:/home/wayland/Notes.txt or
file:/C/Documents and Settings/wayland/Notes.txt or whatever), I'm wondering
if this isn't how we should be specifying our files; it's prettier than
File::Spec :), and unified.
Anyway, HTH,
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