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webdav advice sought
From: |
Thomas Lord |
Subject: |
webdav advice sought |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:26:59 -0700 |
I am working on a project that includes improving
"webdav support in Emacs". I plan to submit patches
and/or new code. I am writing to cross check my
thinking about how to do this before I get too
deeply into it.
I would appreciate helpful suggestions about
what information I'm missing, about which of my
alternative (tentative) plans makes the most sense,
and about what better plans I might have missed.
WebDAV is, of course, a protocol layered on top
of HTTP providing support for a remote file system.
I would like Emacs to be able to treat WebDAV servers
as a regular file system - to be able to "find-file"
a WebDAV file, to be able to save files, to have dired
work and so forth. I would like advisory locking to work.
I would like to, at least by default, have auto-save files
go locally. I am explicitly not, at this stage, concerned
with the WebDAV features and extensions related to versioning.
I understand that there is limited VC-mode support
for WebDAV though I don't know much about that yet.
That is not quite what I'm looking for (I think). I
understand similarly about w3 mode webdav support.
I understand that there is some (somewhat bit-rotted) support
from a third party package called "eldav", which relies on
an unmaintained program called "nd". The current state
of ange-ftp-like support for WebDAV is a bit sad, as far
as I can tell.
First question: have I missed something about the current
state of things?
Second question: what makes sense here?:
1. Try to rehabilitate eldav?
2. Try to adapt ange-ftp to use "cadaver", a command-line
webdav client similar to typical ftp client programs?
3. Try to adapt tramp, again using cadaver?
4. Use ange and tramp as a guide but write a new set
of file hooks, presumably using cadaver?
5. One of the above, but don't use cadaver, use ______?
6. Write C code for Emacs core (adding new library dependencies)?
7. Tom, you dummy, none of the above. Instead ________?
I have my preferences from the above list but I
won't bias things yet by stating them.
Thanks and Regards,
-t
- webdav advice sought,
Thomas Lord <=