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Re: [geclipse-dev] Replicable File Systems - proposal to the core changes
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Ariel Garcia pisze:
Hi Mateusz,
During our last internal meeting here in Poznan, we found useful to add
generic support for replicable file systems into g-Eclipse core (esp.
for the gecl file system).
I'm about to create GUI for the replicable file system (the only one we
support right now is LFC), but it would be nice to let the third-party
plugins also take advantage of the work already done.
The abstraction would consist of:
- IReplicableStore,
...
before starting by proposing the API it would be nice if you could
summarize your plans regarding the use cases, which functionality you want
or propose to support, and how the GUI should look like.
See the response to Harald.
For instance, how to make the user aware of the replicas (also highlighted
by Harald), what functionality and where. Du you propose to do all the
replica management via a new view? etc BTW, we have many views already...
and filemanagement should happen all within the project tree if
possible... avoiding extra views would be nice i think.
Well, you want to hide it from the user, and let him do all the stuff at
the same moment. It looks like: one cannot eat cookie, and have a
cookie. :-)
[joke] http://tnij.org/c00kies
See the response to Harald.
Regarding the API, if thinking about bringing those interfaces to core and
also implementing them in gecl, are there any other filesystems out there
you are aware of that would fit into this API?
(because making a generalized layer out of one example is a bit dangerous)
I agree, this is dangerous, but there is another replicable file system:
Google File System. On the other hand, this would encourage
users/developers to develop their own replicable filesystems.
- public void addReplica( URI replicaURI ) throws CoreException;
why not ProblemException? the additional dependency is absolutely minimal,
it allows us a much more flexible problem reporting, and....
if _WE_ don't use our own "dog stuff" ;-) why would we intend others to
use it??
Because this ENFORCES to use our own "dog stuff", and my intention was
to extend existing IFileStore with the replica management, so our plugin
could be used outside gEclipse. Again my intention was to be consistent
with the Eclipse FS.
--
Mateusz Pabis
