[Cuis-dev] fix for leading tilda in DirectoryEntry, or am I going about this the wrong way?

[Hernán Wilkinson]

I agree with you Juan.
Even signal an exception or change/add the/a message to get a block to be
evaluated in case of not having OSProcess (like at:ifAbsent:).

Cheers!
Hernan.

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 10:28 AM Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi Imran,
>
> I agree you identified a problem. But I don't like to interpret '~' as
> two different folders depending on the presence of OSProcess.
>
> I think that the correct behavior would be to give an error message if
> OSProcess is not present.
>
> What do others think?
>
> Thanks,
>
> On 7/24/2023 10:08 AM, Imran Rafique via Cuis-dev wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I'm hesitant to call this a bugfix, as its quite possible (probable?)
> > that I'm going about this the wrong way (or I've grasped the wrong end
> > of the stick), but here goes:
> >
> > Original behaviour:
> >      '~/foo' asDirectoryEntry  =>   <image_dir>/foo
> >
> > Should be:
> >      <user_home_dir>/foo
> >
> > I think I understand the real issue: without OSProcess, there's no way
> > for the system to know what $HOME is. Perhaps<image_dir>  is
> > considered as a reasonable fallback (in which case, disregard the rest
> > of this).
> >
> > Details:
> > - the attached changeset is a manually-extracted portion of one of my
> > local packages (with just the code pertaining to this issue)
> > - it modifies FileIOAccessor>>  absolutePathComponentsFor:  so that it
> > behaves differently and correctly interprets '~' ONLY if OSProcess is
> > loaded.
> > - which means that DirectoryEntry would give different answers for the
> > same '~/whatever' depending on the state of the image. This is
> > probably bad practice on my part, but anyway, it was annoying me.
> >
> >
> > If this is a bogus fix, please excuse the noise to the list. Either
> > way, the learning experience is a blast (just starting to get the hang
> > of the debugger).
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >         Imran Sher Rafique
>
>
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