+1 soounds really great :) On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose that in the future we implement a xwiki-filesystem > module that has a virtual filesystem API. > > The idea is that all modules who need access to the file system go > through this xwiki-filesystem module. We would implement it using > Commons VFS (http://commons.apache.org/vfs/). > > This allows to use different filesystems: > * For example in unit tests we would use a RAM filesystem. This allows > not leaving files around during tests. > * Users could configure XWiki to use a different filesystem (see > http://commons.apache.org/vfs/filesystems.html) > > I have used commons vfs in the past on Cargo and it has worked great. > I've just had a look at its releases and it's been a while since the > last one. However activity seems to be picking up and provided we have > our own interface I don't see a major issue. At worse we would only > use RAM and file implementations. > > Disclaimer: I'm not planning to work on this anytime soon. Just wanted > to share the idea with you so that we can decide if that's something > we want or not. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >
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