remove contrib/fuse #1409

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zooko · 2011-05-24T18:20:37Z

zooko commented

2011-05-24 18:20:37 +00:00

I'm going to remove contrib/fuse because they are unsupported, bit-rotting, and help propagate the belief that Tahoe-LAFS doesn't have real FUSE support (which it actually does, by SFTP).

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zooko commented

2011-06-22 22:08:34 +00:00

The immediate cause of bitrot is that we are removing support for old-style config files (#1385), and some of the contrib/fuse modules use that config file format. The real problem though is that they don't have unit tests so there is no easy way to be sure that any change I make to them doesn't break them, or to know if they are already broken. Also, as mentioned, there is a fully-supported alternative now in the form of the SFTP server.

That said, there might be advantages to one of these approaches as compared to the SFTP server approach. (Certainly one advantage would be that you don't require a separate tool, the way the SFTP server requires sshfs, to get FUSE integration.)

So, if anyone is interested in maintaining and updating these tools, please adopt them and move them into a new source tree and let us know.

The immediate cause of bitrot is that we are removing support for old-style config files (#1385), and some of the contrib/fuse modules use that config file format. The real problem though is that they don't have unit tests so there is no easy way to be sure that any change I make to them doesn't break them, or to know if they are already broken. Also, as mentioned, there is a fully-supported alternative now in the form of the SFTP server. That said, there might be advantages to one of these approaches as compared to the SFTP server approach. (Certainly one advantage would be that you don't require a separate tool, the way the SFTP server requires sshfs, to get FUSE integration.) So, if anyone is interested in maintaining and updating these tools, please adopt them and move them into a new source tree and let us know.

zooko commented

2011-06-22 22:51:23 +00:00

Attachment remove-contrib.darcs.patch (221953 bytes) added

**Attachment** remove-contrib.darcs.patch (221953 bytes) added

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zooko commented

2011-06-22 23:02:25 +00:00

nejucomo: please review remove-contrib.darcs.patch . Thank you!

nejucomo: please review [remove-contrib.darcs.patch](/tahoe-lafs/trac-2024-07-25/attachments/000078ac-6263-4625-ada7-8a28419d05a8) . Thank you!

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2011-06-22 23:02:25 +00:00

marlowe commented

2011-07-12 12:50:49 +00:00

Reviewed the patch and it looks good to me. nejucomo, let me know if you want me to update the ticket as reviewed.

zooko@zooko.com commented

2011-07-12 15:31:33 +00:00

In changeset:4f8e3e5ae8fefc01:

contrib: remove the contributed fuse modules and the entire contrib/ directory, which is now empty
Also remove a couple of vestigial references to figleaf, which is long gone.
fixes #1409 (remove contrib/fuse)

In changeset:4f8e3e5ae8fefc01: ``` contrib: remove the contributed fuse modules and the entire contrib/ directory, which is now empty Also remove a couple of vestigial references to figleaf, which is long gone. fixes #1409 (remove contrib/fuse) ```

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2011-07-12 15:31:33 +00:00

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