> On 19 Jan 2018, at 02:11, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote:
>
> On 18 January 2018 at 14:33, Alistair Grant <akgrant0...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Hernán,
>>
>> On 18 January 2018 at 05:41, Hernán Morales Durand
>> <hernan.mora...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Note that in R you can set the current working directory with setwd()
>>> and this is very common in R scripts.
>>>
>>> I like the idea around #imageDirectory and #vmStartupDirectory or just
>>> #vmDirectory.
>>> And maybe renaming #workingDirectory to #userWorkingDirectory would be
>>> more clear? Assuming 1 image = 1 user?
>>
>> In Pharo 7:
>>
>> FileLocator workingDirectory = C getcwd() # same as R and most languages
>> FileLocator imageDirectory = the directory where the image is located
>> FileLocator vmDirectory = the directory where the vm is located
>
> I like the distinction of having all three.
yes… but I would like an idiom to make declarations easier.
for example, you made
'./something’ asFileReference —> this is a cwd path
'{image}/something’ asFileReference —> image path
etc.
because right now I have to do:
FileLocator imageDirectory / ‘something'
and it annoys me a bit (not that I cannot live with it, but… ) ;)
Esteban
>
> cheers -ben
>
