https://github.com/zostay/file-system

A virtual file system thingy
https://github.com/zostay/file-system

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A virtual file system thingy

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zostay/file-system
• Owner: zostay
• Created: 2011-10-20T02:35:38.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-10-20T02:44:42.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-29T10:29:22.372Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Perl
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• Size: 148 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: Changes

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File::System

============

Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp, 

This is another Perl-based virtual file system module. I know that an API for

such a thing already exists in CPAN under the name of Filesys::Virtual, but I

consider File::System different and, in my opinion, superior.

The goal of the File::System module is to provide a very general framework for

providing access to a heirarchical data structure. Each member of this data

structure has a set of properties and is marked as containing "content" and/or

as a "container". Something that only provides content is analogous to a file.

Something that only contains other things is analogous to a directory. However,

this framework doesn't exclude the possibility that a thing could have the

features of both.

These features are important if one wishes to make a non-filesystem interface

appear as such. For example, this system allows for the possibility of an

LDAP-accessible database or RDBMS being used as if they were file systems. This

might seem a little senseless at first, but if we wish to provide a system for

mapping a VFS like this to URLs for web or other purposes, it begins to make

more sense.

INSTALLATION

This module is Module::Build based:

  perl Build.PL

  ./Build

  ./Build test

  ./Build install

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2005 Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp. All Rights Reserved.

This library is distributed and licensed under the same terms as Perl itself.