On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Joel Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm debating with myself whether to send this, because I don't want > to make people mad, with the result of closed minds, but sometimes > you have to be politically incorrect:
I think this will be resolved by whomever implements this, with no need for flamefests :-) In that sense, it is very simple - as a programmer, if I am going to spend significant time working on a feature like this I want it to 1 - work for the deployments - this is the most important thing! 2 - work for G1G1 users too - they are the donors and enthusiasts! 3 - work for the developers - otherwise it won't get attention and bugfixes 4 - work in as many places as possible 5 - not cause security trouble 6 - enable sharing across the internet if possible CIFS is only good on #2, and fails at all the other ones. It is a good solution for a very narrow set of scenarios. These are some of the key concerns in front of a dev planning to implement some form of server-based filesharing. That's why I am suggesting WebDAV - which is superior to this, and trivial to configure on many platforms. Code will settle this. Anyone trying to do a CIFS implementation will soon realise that it just does not fit the usage scenario (not meant for WiFi, userland usage, etc) and WebDAV does. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel