From c4637ade8df5b54c90a83daef71e773f85f1697c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: antrik Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:21:46 +0100 Subject: Download backends GSoC task: More appropriate file name --- community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn | 2 +- community/gsoc/project_ideas/apt_ftpfs.mdwn | 47 ---------------------- .../gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 community/gsoc/project_ideas/apt_ftpfs.mdwn create mode 100644 community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn index 503dc417..803a5a05 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn @@ -94,4 +94,4 @@ will assist you as well as we can. [[inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] [[inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] [[inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/apt_ftpfs" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] +[[inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/apt_ftpfs.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/apt_ftpfs.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index aa4823de..00000000 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/apt_ftpfs.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,47 +0,0 @@ -[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled -[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -[[meta title="Use Internet Protocol Translators (ftpfs etc.) as Backends for Other Programs"]] - -The Hurd design faciliates splitting up large applications into independent, -generic components, which can be easily combined in different contexts, by -moving common functionality into separate Hurd servers (translators), -accessible trough filesystem interfaces and/or specialized RPC interfaces. - -Download protocols like FTP, HTTP, BitTorrent etc. are very good candidates for -this kind of modularization: a program could simply use the download -functionality by accessing FTP, HTTP etc. translators. - -There is already an ftpfs traslator in the Hurd tree, as well as a [httpfs -translator on hurdextras](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#httpfs); however, -these are only suitable for very simple use cases: they just provide the actual -file contents downloaded from the URL, but no additional status information -that are necessary for interactive use. (Progress indication, error codes, HTTP -redirects etc.) - -A new interface providing all this additional information (either as an -extension to the existing translators, or as distinct translators) is required -to make such translators usable as backends for programs like apt-get for -example. - -The goal of this project is to design a suitable interface, implement it for at -least one download protocol, and adapt apt-get (or some other program) to use -this as a backend. - -This task requires some design skills and some knowlegde of internet protocols, -to create a suitable interface. Translator programming knowledge will have to -be obtained while implementing it. - -It is not an easy task, but it shouldn't pose any really hard problems either. - -Possible mentors: Olaf Buddenhagen (antrik) - -Exercise: Make some improvement to one of the existing download translators -- -httpfs in particular is known to be buggy. diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..aa4823de --- /dev/null +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[meta title="Use Internet Protocol Translators (ftpfs etc.) as Backends for Other Programs"]] + +The Hurd design faciliates splitting up large applications into independent, +generic components, which can be easily combined in different contexts, by +moving common functionality into separate Hurd servers (translators), +accessible trough filesystem interfaces and/or specialized RPC interfaces. + +Download protocols like FTP, HTTP, BitTorrent etc. are very good candidates for +this kind of modularization: a program could simply use the download +functionality by accessing FTP, HTTP etc. translators. + +There is already an ftpfs traslator in the Hurd tree, as well as a [httpfs +translator on hurdextras](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#httpfs); however, +these are only suitable for very simple use cases: they just provide the actual +file contents downloaded from the URL, but no additional status information +that are necessary for interactive use. (Progress indication, error codes, HTTP +redirects etc.) + +A new interface providing all this additional information (either as an +extension to the existing translators, or as distinct translators) is required +to make such translators usable as backends for programs like apt-get for +example. + +The goal of this project is to design a suitable interface, implement it for at +least one download protocol, and adapt apt-get (or some other program) to use +this as a backend. + +This task requires some design skills and some knowlegde of internet protocols, +to create a suitable interface. Translator programming knowledge will have to +be obtained while implementing it. + +It is not an easy task, but it shouldn't pose any really hard problems either. + +Possible mentors: Olaf Buddenhagen (antrik) + +Exercise: Make some improvement to one of the existing download translators -- +httpfs in particular is known to be buggy. -- cgit v1.2.3