> On May 19, 2020, at 5:40 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone <exar...@twistedmatrix.com>
> wrote:
>
> Is anyone going to mention twisted.vfs?
You, apparently? :)
If anyone is curious about this code, `git revert
2059b5313ec236e8c3f77da4bd773ab98299ca1b` to have a look at it.
twisted.vfs was an attempt to do something like this, but it also suffered from
the split-release infrastructure; it wasn't released so it didn't get user
feedback, its interfaces were odd in several ways, it was very specific to
POSIX filesystems, had some ambiguity around whether it wanted to be operating
in terms of strings or objects, and generally didn't provide much value.
If we want to bring this concept back (as
https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/4934
<https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/4934> alludes to by mentioning
"twisted.path") it would benefit from lots of discussion and a concerted effort
to integrate into the existing HTTP/SFTP/FTP code, so we actually create an
interface that makes it easy for applications to create virtual filesystems
accessible in multiple ways, with non-filesystem backends, rather than just
wrapping up our file I/O code in a translation layer between... our versions of
POSIX constants and the 'os' module's version of those same constants.
Nevertheless 'vfs' may be of archaeological interest for someone embarking on
such a project; it's not all bad ideas, it just had some problems :).
-g
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