It's just a matter of selecting a strategy. I've proposed two:

A) create a wrapper class for legacy Stream compatibility selectors

B) create extensions for Legacy Stream compatibility selectors

My preference goes to A)

The legacy support MUST be minimal (next nextPut: nextPutAll: peek upTo: ...), otherwise we will import all the cruft in Xtream and would go back to our starting point...

Once the minimal support written (a few hours should be enough), we should gradually switch each every legacy Stream usage -> Xtream.

An area which require more work is those Streams that have mixed conventions (one portion is interpreted as text, another as binary).
In theory that's easy, we just have two streams and they both wrap on a low level binary stream, but that means we have to be very cautious with buffers and caches.

Another area of work is usage of ugly selectors like name (we try to access the file name from the Stream API, arghh). Those usages are bad and require a rewrite.

2013/11/12 St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr>

or of course, you start looking at porting XStreams to pharo ;), which on the long run will
solve many more problems. The current situation is not that satisfactory

having experience with it and thinking about a plan for the beginning of 40 would be great.

I know that nicolas ported XTream to pharo/squeak. Now understanding how integrate it would be nice.

Stef