After a great deal of reflection, I have two recommendations that should be minimal for developers, but make the greatest leap toward usability for users.
- SMB by default for Windows - FTP by default (localhost) for *nix With these already built services available by default, with clear documentation for attaching to them, users would immediately be able to use Tahoe in a local directory-type manner. The high latency of Tahoe-LAFS should be stressed in all documentation. Thoughts? jody ---- - Think carefully. - Contra mundum - "Against the world" (St. Athanasius) - Credo ut intelliga - "I believe that I may know" (St. Augustin of Hippo) On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Jody Harris <imha...@gmail.com> wrote: > What are the problems with making a fork of Twisted with the fix Tahoe > needs to implement FTP, then moving back to Twisted trunk once the required > patch is available there? > > Is this even a possible option for making Tahoe FTP available immediately > without having to push off the Twisted patch onto users? > > jody > > ---- > - Think carefully. > - Contra mundum - "Against the world" (St. Athanasius) > - Credo ut intelliga - "I believe that I may know" (St. Augustin of Hippo) > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Jody Harris <imha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Peter Secor <sec...@allmydata.com> wrote: >> >>> Have you tried the FTP interface that is available? This can be easily >>> mapped using Windows File Explorer, and if the network is local then you >>> don't have to worry about unencrypted file transmission. There is also >>> SFTP support. >>> >>> http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.txt >>> >>> It is set up on the production network: ftp://prodftp.allmydata.com and >>> uses your normal login/pass. You can also easily enable it on your local >>> node to try it out. Just modify the tahoe.cfg to enable FTP, point at an >>> authentication server, return a base URI root-cap, and you're off! >>> >>> Ps >>> >> >> Peter, I think that the FTP gateway would be a good first step. >> Unfortunately, the instructions in the url above fail for the tahoe >> installed from from Ubuntu 9.10 repositories. >> >> "Failed to load application: your twisted is lacking" >> >> With a working FTP, and a default alias, many users would be able to "just >> use tahoe" than are able to at this point. >> >> This is broken FTP implementation a "feature" of the 9.10 build? >> >> jody >> > >
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