Sorry for replying so late. I have just checked in some bug fixes for fssync (r72206). This was indeed not much work.
Jim Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't think a whole lot is needed to make fssync a reality: > >1. Cure any bitrot that has set in. It would also ne nice to replace >existing >tests with modern doctests. > >2. Provide a Python API. fssync originally had a Python API, but this >was > replaced with a web-based API. I think there should be both a >Python > API that wasn't encumbered in any way by security, and a >protected web-based > API. The Python API should really be Zope and even ZODB >independent. > I don't think this would be a lot of work. The original one >wasn't and would > be useful in many cases. > >3. I think there should be a secure web-based interface. This will >require: > > - Adding security checks that the user is allowed to access >serialization > and de-serialization adapters, > > - Adding security declarations for these adapters, > >I don't think any of these would require a great deal of work. I can try to deal with these tasks, but I fear that there is a little bit more to do. While playing with real data, I noticed - problems to serialize large sites (I run into a stack overflow and have still to figure out why this happened), - problems with unicode filenames. As a first step I would like to clean up the existing code. Concerning this I have questions/suggestions: - Can the fssync:adapter zcml directive be replaced by ordinary trusted adapters? - Can zope.app.fssync.fspickle be replaced by zope.xmlpickle? (It seems that fspickle preserves location ids but it does not seem to preserve the order of dict items) - What's the purpose of zope.app.fssync.fsbundle? Are there still usecases for this code or can it be removed? - What's the purpose of zope.app.fssync.fsregistry? Can this be replaced by utility registrations? All in all the fssync code seem to be in an old-fashioned but usable shape and it's a pity that it has not been maintained. Perhaps the maintenance can be made easier if we can change the code without deprecation warnings. Nobody seems to have used fssync in the last two years. Regards, Uwe ________________________________________________________________ Dr. Uwe Oestermeier Institut für Wissensmedien Knowledge Media Research Center Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 40 D-72072 Tuebingen Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +49 7071 979-208 Fax +49 7071 979-100 _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com