[haiku-commits] Re: r40736 - in haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/mail_daemon/inbound_protocols/imap: . imap_lib
- From: Clemens <clemens.zeidler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:29:56 +1300
On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:26:55 +1300, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Is there any lib for this planned? Since I can think of many of
these fs's it would be nice to have some support libs.
stuff for a fs support lib:
- store files in a flat file (think could be taken from package fs)
- query/indexing stuff
- api to add, remove, rename... files inclusive hook functions
I'm not entirely sure I see where such a library would be used (by the FS
module?) and what you mean by the listed items.
I though about file systems like google contacts or google picassa fs...
I think all
of theses fs needs some way to store cache files locally. Also you want to
manipulate files in the fs. I could imagine that all this stuff looks the
same for many usecases. Thus the lib should be for a fs module to make it
easier to write a fs. Maybe hide the node stuff a bit...
Eventually something we need anyway is some kind of services/event daemon
which can start services, serializing dependencies as needed. It would be
straight forward to provide a simple API that allows to request services
(e.g. "IMAP FS user@xxxxxxxx") and wait for their availability. That's
far
simpler than hacking lazy mounting support into a file system.
Does it also handle the case when a app want to open an arbitrary file
without knowing anything about "IMAP FS user@xxxxxxxx"?
regards,
Clemens
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