Tango VFS

Julio César Carrascal Urquijo jcesar at phreaker.net
Tue Jun 26 18:36:47 PDT 2007


Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Dear D community
> 
> The Tango team is readying a virtual-file-system for Tango. A VFS lets you
> mount 'folders' from arbitrary sources (local files, zips, ftp, http, etc)
> and exposes the content in a simple and consistent manner independent of
> the underlying repository mechanisms.

Wow!! I was thinking on writing something like this for a project. 
You've saved me a lot of work. Thanks


> ...
> The initial implementation has progressed rapidly with both local folders
> and Zip-based folders operating at this time, and adapters for
> other 'protocols' under way. The various folder implementations are able to
> operate independently from the VFS such that, for example, LocalFolder can
> be used as an alternative interface for operating on local files.
> All 'protocols' are pluggable, such that linking a VFS adapter will expose
> that protocol for use.

I suppose the rest of tango IO-related modules can use this VFS as if it 
  where the real FS?



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