Speaking of documentation... The biggest issue I've found doing development for VFS (it's been a while) is unit testing, in particular, testing providers like WebDav, FTP, etc. It is a giant pain to set up an HTTP server, FTP server, etc with the proper files in the proper place.
I recall reading about setting up some resources inside Apache in order to make unit testing easier. To be frank, this is one of the things that has kept me from coming back to doing more work on VFS, it is just too much of a pain to set up the testing locally :-( Mario, Has any of this changed with the work you have done? Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Mario Ivankovits [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 10:48 > To: Jakarta Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [VFS] Is there a different list for the sandbox projects? > > Andy Lewis wrote: > > > I have been subscribed here for a bit now, particularly looking for > > traffic relating to the VFS project, but have not seen any. I know > > there is some recent work going on on the project (just from CVS) but > > have seen nothing on this list. I am hoping to be able to help with > > it. Am I in the right place? > > Yes - there is not much community driven work. > But I am still there and pick up every user request. And the bursts Gary > talked about are those where i try to implement something completley new > - due to the low user traffic here I try to move slowly to not run into > a situation where VFS is completley unusable and nobody complains about, > though I use it in our application and it still works very well. > > Next thing i would like to do is to make the FileObject thread-safe > (which again will show up as burst on the list ;-)) but this is > something I have to plan very carefully. > > And - fore sure - the documentation should be updated, but I am still in > hope i find some native english speaker who would like to reread what i > write - or even better - one who would like to write the documentation ;-) > > However, every contribution is welcome. > What do you have in mind? > > > --- > Mario > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
