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

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

Is anyone going to mention twisted.vfs?

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 8:33 AM Barry Scott <barry.scott at forcepoint.com>
wrote:

> 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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> > Ian
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