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Virtual file format.
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What about delete ? #126

Closed mmc41 closed 7 years ago

mmc41 commented 7 years ago

I am looking for a js virtual file system where I can read/create/update/delete "files" and "folders" of various kinds.

Vinyl looks great but it seems vinyl can only do 3/4 of filesystem operations, since I could find no way to delete virtual files in a portable manner that works across adapters. Is that correct or am I overlooking something?

phated commented 7 years ago

Vinyl doesn't do any of those things. Vinyl is very constrained to just be a representation of a file in memory. Adapters are in control of generating Vinyl objects and interacting with a filesystem or some other medium. If an adapter were to deal with deletion, it would just be a glorified globber and it doesn't fit the paradigm. Anyway, this issue doesn't belong on Vinyl.