On 11/03/14 19:26, Olemis Lang wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Olemis Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Is there any existing integration between Bloodhound and Google App
>>> Engine, as it would make Google Drive integration easier?
>>>
>>>
>> Considering my description above I do not think GAE will be a target for
>> this . AFAICT it's unlikely to run BH on GAE atm . At least the goal of the
>> original ticket did not consider running BH on the cloud as a pre-requisite
>> .
>>
>>
> ... and the reasons for this are
>
> - Trac & Bloodhound make heavy use of local file-system
> - It's unlikely that GAE data store will be supported atm e.g. NoSQL ,
> particular joins , ...
> - GAE resource and request management policies
>
Looking at this project again, one of the questions I think I would like
to have answered if I were a student is whether filesystem abstraction
is easier to consider as an external problem. I mean for unix-like
systems at least we could be hoping to deal with FUSE filesystems
instead of writing anything specially for Bloodhound. See for example
[1] for skydrive, [2] for GAE, [3] for Google Drive, [4] for Dropbox...
Also, [5] might give a means to have WebDAV mounts as well.
I certainly have not reviewed the quality of any of those and I have
also left aside any consideration of licenses on the assumption that
these would not be distributed as part of any solution.
This may not always leave us with consistent instructions for the wide
variety of resources that could be covered and we may not be able to
guarantee that the resources could be treated equally on all the
available OSs. If that is all acceptable and even preferable, is there a
project that can be built out of this?
I don't mean to claim that there is no project and my concerns may well
be unfounded!
Cheers,
Gary
[1] https://github.com/mk-fg/skydrive-fuse-fs
[2] https://code.google.com/p/fuse-gae/
[3] https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse
[4] https://github.com/arekzb/dropfuse
[5] https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/davfs2
