[Twisted-Python] unified filesystem API (was: SMB server component for twisted)

[Glyph]

> On May 15, 2020, at 6:14 PM, Ian Haywood <ian at haywood.id.au> wrote:
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> On 16/05/2020 10:55 am, Ian Haywood wrote:
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>> On 15/05/2020 10:52 am, Glyph wrote:
>>> y 14, 2020, at 5:23 PM, Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <wsanchez at wsanche <mailto:wsanchez at wsanchez.net>
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>>>>   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?
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>> 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
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> 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