[Zope-dev] Zope Filesystem

Michel Pelletier michel@digicool.com
Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:17:52 -0800


Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
> 
> Sorry if this is brought up excessively.
> 
> I'm wondering if we have any ongoing project to provide Zope with a
> filesystem driver for Linux. I understand there's the question of object
> semantics being mapped onto files,

You mean using Zope as a filesytem right?  Then I think that last
sentence should be the other way around, mapping file semantics onto
objects.

The way your sentence reads means using the filesystem as an object
repository, not the object repository as a filesystem.

> but AFAICS as soon as that's decided
> it's a relatively easy task, no?

I don't know.
 
> There's already an FTP interface for Zope, and IIRC there _is_ something
> like a ftpfs either developed and dead or moving along slowly. This
> perhaps could serve as a temporary kludge?

Perhaps.
 
> The main vantages are freedom from the Web Editing interface, which isn't
> the greatest - at least till we get a vi-binded textarea on a browser,
> which IMHO isn't coming very soon, and freedom to use whatever revision
> control tools we'd like. I understand objects themselves wouldn't be
> supported, but since DTML documents are plain text, they at least would
> work fine, excluding attribute/permission trouble. This is not
> unsolvabale, AFAICS.

Yeah, content-type I guess could be sniffed, and everything except
documents, XML, and images would just become plain files.

-Michel