> On May 15, 2020, at 6:14 PM, Ian Haywood <i...@haywood.id.au> wrote: > > On 16/05/2020 10:55 am, Ian Haywood wrote: >> >> On 15/05/2020 10:52 am, Glyph wrote: >>> y 14, 2020, at 5:23 PM, Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <wsanchez@wsanche >>> <mailto:wsanc...@wsanchez.net> >>>> >>>> I think it's great to get an SMB implementation in the Twisted org, but >>>> why would we even consider adding something like this to the main Twisted >>>> project? >> >> The advantage of twisted itself is cross-protocol abstractions such as cred. >> Of course you don't have to be in the repo to use them, but in practice >> developers need the discipline of a single project to maintain consistency, >> otherwise the human tendency to reinvent wheels is too strong > > Apropos we have two APIs for exporting filesystems which are broadly similar: > SFTP in conch and FTP itself, SMB is about to be a third, ideally we should > have one or have them descend from one another. It's slightly harder than it > sounds as SMB is a file-access, as opposed to file-transfer, protocol and > supports some extra features such as locking.
This does point out one of my secret hopes for SMB: that a file server's maintainers will care enough about file throughput that we'll finally get a centralized, official way of doing async file I/O that we can share with SFTP, FTP, and HTTP :). -glyph _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com https://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
