[Savannah-register-public] [task #5278] Submission of FTP Filesystem (v3) for GNU/Linux

[Victor Porton]

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                 Summary: Submission of FTP Filesystem (v3) for GNU/Linux
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: porton
            Submitted on: Wed 02/22/06 at 20:09
         Should Start On: Wed 02/22/06 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Sat 03/04/06 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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Full Name:
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  FTP Filesystem (v3) for GNU/Linux

System Group Name:
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  ftpfs

Type:
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  Official GNU software

License:
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  GNU General Public License V2 or later

Description:
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  The project is to make FTP filesystem for GNU/Linux (and possibly other
OSes). Purpose: mount directory on an FTP server. (Other TCP based
filesystems, especially text protocol based, should be added, e.g. CVS
filesystem, probably HTTP, etc., probably also some other network filesystems
may be added.)
The current implementation uses LUFS (Linux Userland Filesystem)
[http://lufs.sf.net] but it should be rewritten to use FUSE
[http://fuse.sf.net] instead. (Afterwards it may be rewritten to use
Mach/GNU).
Written in C++. Includes a simple wrapper around CommonC++ TCP library. TCP
support can be easily ported (thanks to use standard C++ iostreams) to use
other C++ TCP libraries (by configure option).
Using C++ and our own FTP implementation allows to make fast, powerful,
flexible and little depended on other packages FTP implementation, to be
suitable for efficient OS support of FTP directories.
In the future GNU/Linux it should become the only FTP client, which will
replace all other FTP client libraries, because having FTP libraries is
superfluos as FTP is a file system and should be accessed as file system, not
with a special library unrelated with filesystems. (Advanced control over FTP
could be done via ioctl's or likewise.)
The FTP client implementation is based on FTP implementation from ftps from
LUFS. (Currently the only big change is that C networking code is replaced
with OO C++ code which uses a C++ class library for doing TCP.)
More info at http://freesoft.ex-code.com/ftpfs.xml
Source: http://freesoft.ex-code.com/binaries/ftpfs-v3-0.1.2.tar.gz
The current version is already functional but has bugs, including too slow
FTP download (because of a bug in CommonC++ or maybe Linux kernel, which I
has reported to CommonC++ developers).
There are other FTP filesystems for Linux but these are either abandoned
projects, written in an interpreted language, buggy, or miss important
features while are hardly extensible/modificable by design (being written in
C). So all other FTP fs projects are unsuitable to be the FTP filesystem for
GNU project.

Other Software Required:
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  1. LUFS (should be replaced with FUSE);
2. CommonC++ (should by configure option be replaceable with other TCP C++
libraries, e.g. skstreams);
3. standard C++ library (for iostreams).

Other Comments:
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  I have choosen "Official GNU software" meaning that I want to apply this
project to become a part of GNU in the future. Your explanation on the entry
form of the project type are VERY vague (please, correct that page). So I'm
not sure whether I entered it correctly. If I entered project type wrongly
please correct it. Note that now it does not conform to GNU standards. (It is
required to convenient maintaining applying patches borrowed from other
projects.) I deem it should be changed to conform to GNU standards in the
future, after all patches will be borrowed.








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