Excellent idea Bill ! I am absolutely willing to do it ! Dokan install folder can also be retrieved from the registry so it is a way to go with dlopen and dlsym mechanism.
Since I think all fuse wrapper in this fuse project should propose the same FUSE VERSION, I will need some time for updating it Dokan fuse that is currently 2.7 when WinFSP is 2.8. Thank you Mark Geisert for willing to maintain it ! 2016-07-26 20:38 GMT+02:00 Bill Zissimopoulos <billz...@navimatics.com>: > On 7/25/16, 11:27 PM, Mark Geisert wrote: > > >>Bill Zissimopoulos writes: >>> - Rename the package to winfsp-fuse, but have it somehow “satisfy” >>> packages that require “fuse” (e.g. SSHFS, FUSEPY). This would allow >>> multiple *-fuse packages to exist in the setup database and the user >>> chooses which one they want. My understanding based on Marco’s answer is >>> that this is not currently supported by Cygwin’s dependency system. >> >>You could define a package "fuse" with no contents and a dependency on >>package "winfsp-fuse". Then later when/if another FUSE implementation >>becomes available, "somebody" could replace the "fuse" package with >>whatever is required to get alternatives support for the variants. > > BTW, here is another alternative that I have been mulling around. > > I can take the current Cygwin package source, place it under a liberal > license like the BSD and create a separate project out of it. The intent > of the new project would be to support different FUSE solutions for > Windows using a *single* package. Currently it only supports WinFsp, but > it could be modified to support Dokany or other solutions. > > There are many benefits to such an approach IMO: > > - A single FUSE package and a single cygfuse.dll. > - Works out of the box with all supported Windows user mode file system > solutions. > - No changes in Cygwin’s dependency system or setup.exe required. > - No user confusion. > > The current FUSE package is actually very simple. It looks in the registry > to see if/where WinFsp is installed and then loads the WinFsp DLL using > dlopen and the WinFsp-FUSE symbols using dlsym. Presumably the same > technique could work with Dokany or other solution. > > https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/tree/master/opt/cygfuse > > To clarify I do not volunteer to maintain such a project. Only to > kickstart it by contributing the existing package code. I would hope that > another maintainer emerges, one who is both unaffiliated to the existing > projects (Dokany, WinFsp, etc.) to ensure fairness and one that has > Cygwin’s interests in mind. > > Let me know. > > Bill >
