2016-04-18 11:08 GMT+02:00 Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu>:

Think of it as follows: Pharo is cross platform, forward slash is used on *nix and Mac OS, but not Windows where it is backslash. FileReference is an object oriented API that abstracts over that. Asking for an interpretation of the sub parts is a step too far (even if it would be handy).

We have an open bugtracker issue about this.

There is no conclusion right now how to handle this.

I understand that this path interpretation is a step too far , on the other hand we already do this in #resolveString:

see output of (on a windows platform(!))

(FileSystem root / 'aPath/file.txt') basename.
(FileSystem root / 'aPath\file.txt') basename.

vs.

(FileSystem root resolveString:'aPath/file.txt') basename.
(FileSystem root resolveString:'aPath\file.txt') basename.

#/ could behave like #resolveString

And for example:

(FileLocator vmDirectory / 'testdir/file.txt') writeStream << 'Test'

will succeed, if the directory <vmdirectory>/testdir/ exists (it does not try to create a file called "testdir/file.txt", but really just "file.txt").

(see issue 13217)

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> On 18 Apr 2016, at 10:56, Valentin Ryckewaert <valentin.ryckewaert@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm on Linux
>
> Is it wanted that root / 'a' / 'foo.txt' is different than root / '.foo.txt' ? I find that strange
>
> 2016-04-18 10:52 GMT+02:00 Cyril Ferlicot Delbecque <cyril.ferlicot@gmail.com>:
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>
> On 18/04/2016 10:44, Valentin Ryckewaert wrote:
> > Using your method (A string asFileReference) it works thanks !
> >
> > But if you use FileSystem root / .... I get the "same" object but it's
> > still not working. Did I make a mistake somewhere?
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Did you try `FileSystem root / 'a' / 'Path' / 'cat.jpg'` instead of
> `FileSystem root / 'aPath/cat.jpg'`?
>
> On what OS are you? I remember I had some trouble with the root on Windows.
>
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