On 5/13/05, Mario Ivankovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After long time in the sandbox I would like to promote > commons-vfs to commons proper. > > There are many user requests to enter a release cycle and > there is consent that VFS is stable enough to offer it. > > (0) Rationale > > commons-vfs allows a single api to access many different > filesystem, A plugin system allows it to extend the system > with 3rd party libraries without the need to touch the > core. > > (1) Scope of the Package > > The scope of VFS is to use other libraries to access those > filesystems and insert as less overhead as possible. > > (1.1) Currently supported filesystems > > local files > ftp > http > webdav > sftp > samba > temporary > > - and files packaged in > zip > jar > tar > gzip > bzip2 > > (1.2) Access modes (depending on the filesystem capabilities) > > create, list, read, write, delete, rename, random access, attributes > > (2) Interaction with other packages > > VFS uses junit for its testing and requires a couple > of servers (apache, ssh, samba, ...) to pass them. > Release 1.0 relies on jdk 1.3 only, though I have plans > to migrate to jdk 1.5 for a release 2.0 with backward > compatibility to jdk 1.4 using retroweaver. > BUT this ONLY happens if a foregoing vote succeed. > > Also there is a list of required resources on > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/sandbox/vfs/download.html > Here the word "required" means "if the users would > like to use a specific filesystem". > If a library is missing VFS will not fail but do > not provide its capabilities. > > (3) Required jakarta-commons resources > > SVN Repository > > Mailing List > commons-dev/commons-user. [VFS] prefixed in the > subject line. > > Bugzilla > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/ > > (4) Initial committers > Adam Murdoch > adammurdoch -at- apache.org > > James Strachan > jstrachan -at- apache.org > > Dion Gillard > dion -at- apache.org > > Mario Ivankovits > imario -at- apache.org > > ---------- Cut Here ---------- > Vote to promote the "vfs" package from Sandbox to Commons proper > [ ] +1 I am in favor of this action and will help > [X] +0 I am in favor of this action but cannot help > [ ] -0 I am not in favor of this action > [ ] -1 I am opposed to this action and here is why: > > Vote to release Commons VFS 1.0: > [ ] +1 I am in favor of this action and will help > [X] +0 I am in favor of this action but cannot help > [ ] -0 I am not in favor of this action > [ ] -1 I am opposed to this action and here is why: > > ---------- Cut Here ---------- > > --- > Mario > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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