>>>>> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 01:13:10 -0500 (EST), "L.M.Orchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>said:
> Greets. Looking to register a namespace IO::Filesystem.
> Name DSLI Description Info
> ------------- ---- -------------------------------------------- -----
> IO::Filesystem cdpO OO interface to a filesystem-like datasource DEUSX
> Comments on this namespace or an alternate one for the above package would
> be appreciated. It's basically an abstract class presenting a set of
> methods which roughly correspond to the set of standard operations
> possible to a filesystem.
> Sounds silly since we already have those as functions. But, it becomes
> useful, for instance, when one creates a subclass which implements a
> simulated filesystem interface to a MySQL database. And then you may
> uses it in such beasts as an FTPd, or a set of commands like cp, ls, rm,
> etal... Because IO::Filesystem::* classes would all present the same
> interface, one is free to swap out various implementations, yet use the
> same set of tools/apps.
I see, you haven't yet uploaded such a thing, so it may be of interest
to you to know that a Filesys:: namespace already exists:
Filesys::
::AFS cdcO AFS Distributed File System interface NOG
::Df Rdpr Disk free based on Filesys::Statvfs IGUTHRIE
::DiskFree adpO OS independant parser of the df command ABARCLAY
::SamFS adcf Interface to SamFS API LUPE
::Statvfs Rdcf Interface to the statvfs() system call IGUTHRIE
::dfent adpf By-name interface TOMC
::mntent adpf By-name interface TOMC
::statfs adpf By-name interface TOMC
I for one would rather expect a filesystem emulation layer in the
Filesys namespace than in IO. Maybe Filesys::Perl or Filesys::Base or
even Filesys::IO would seem natural. But maybe that's just me. Either
way, feel free to upload, do not wait until the light gets green.
--
andreas
