It’s not a deal breaker, no, but it’s quite a problem for usability. There are other issues with a concept of universally applicable

Path

, e.g. in Windows

C:foo.txt

is a “path to foo.txt in a current directory for drive C:“, and it’s different from

C:\foo.txt

which is an absolute path. It is kinda bizzare to apply these Windows concepts to any other file systems. I’m not saying it breaks it, just pointing out there are issues in FS-independent paths. Also I agree that having a data-only path brings a lot of benefits. Just need to have a nice idea/design here.

Is there a simple way to convert

ByteBuffer

to

Input

on JVM?

Note, that we are rewriting kotlinx.io right now, so it all will change.

Another use-case for io: I need to redirect input to output. The best solution without creating intermediate buffer I found is to write:

while (!endOfInput){
    out.writeByte(readByte())
}

If I understand current IO logic correctly, the input in general has a sequence of pooled buffers, so it would be simple to redirect those buffers directly to the output, but I can't find a way to do it with current API.

^ I was able to add maven repo and gradle download artifacts. However build for native failed:

> Task :desktop:performance_app:compileKotlinNative FAILED
w: skipping /Users/asmirnov/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.jetbrains.kotlinx/kotlinx-files-macosx64/0.1.0-dev-31/77854b4718090e294deda0273771c40396a6e381/kotlinx-files.klib. The abi versions don't match. Expected '[9]', found '5'
w: The compiler versions don't match either. Expected '[1.3.1]', found '1.1.2-release-6625'
e: Could not find "/Users/asmirnov/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.jetbrains.kotlinx/kotlinx-files-macosx64/0.1.0-dev-31/77854b4718090e294deda0273771c40396a6e381/kotlinx-files.klib" in [/Users/asmirnov/Documents/dev/src/kotlin-research/project-kotlin/desktop, /Users/asmirnov/.konan/klib, /Users/asmirnov/.konan/kotlin-native-macos-1.3.1/klib/common, /Users/asmirnov/.konan/kotlin-native-macos-1.3.1/klib/platform/macos_x64].

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

Is it correct that exactly the same k/n should be used (that was used to compile native artifact)?

Hey, guys. Any updates on this? What's the suggested approach for multiplatform files?

If anyone’s looking for an alternative to

orangy/kotlinx-files

,

<http://pw.binom.io|pw.binom.io>

was just updated with macOS support: https://github.com/caffeine-mgn/pw.binom.io/commit/1ee821058ccce7309fa7694e7b3a8142081092ef#diff-783b540faf0155be89004ca011b2c8fc