From: gabriele renzi <rff_rff@...>
Date: 2005-02-17T01:44:51+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FileSystem 0.1.0: Beta for me, Alpha for you

Francis Hwang ha scritto:

>> second: would'nt something like "FS::Mock"  or "test/filesystem" be a 
>> better name? when I first saw this on rubyforge I thought it was some 
>> kind of VFS :)
> 
> 
> I think it's related to how you're supposed to access the lib in your 
> live code. The name "FileSystem" to me seems less distracting in 
> production code than something like "FS::Mock" ... It's only being 
> mocked out in your tests.

mh.. but I have the feeling that it /should/ be distracting.
Or, better put, that it should make clear that we're working with a test 
facility. Anyway I understand your reason and you're the author :)

> I'm not 100% happy with the current form of access either: Typing 
> "FileSystem.get_file" when you really just want "File" is sort of 
> cumbersome. But it just seemed like the least broken thing I could go 
> forward with while I figured out something else. When we talked about 
> this at Ruby-NYC a few weeks ago, Patrick was saying I could write a 
> file to change the definitions of File, FileUtils, Dir, etc. Maybe 
> that'll be the way to go.
> 
> Anyway, I'm very very open to suggestions regarding the name and/or how 
> to access it.

just a suggestion, maybe you can take a look at how libvfs (on raa) does 
this.