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

[Barry Scott]

On Saturday, 16 May 2020 02:14:57 BST Ian Haywood 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 at wsanche
> >> <mailto:wsanchez at 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.

I do not see a common class tree works for things that are so different
as SMB and FTP.

Barry



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