[sword-devel] InstallMgr limitation

[Troy A. Griffitts]

> That said, the listing has some advantages:
> 1) It allows one to know the sizes of the files prior to downloading the 
> file.
> 2) It allows one to know the scope of the work (nt only, ot only, ot and 
> nt, apocrypha)

A real FTP connection that can list files has these same 2 advantages :)

I don't have an objection to including an ls-lR file at the base of the 
modules directory, if that would help.  It is one file and will not be 
downloaded or archived with the autopackager into each module (and 
promises nothing about the module file content)

Having said this.  Would anyone REALLY use an ls-lR file?  I would 
object to code in InstallMgr's FTP driver using this.  If your FTP 
connection is on crack, then you can't use the InstallMgr FTP driver. 
We don't support broken FTP connections.  I wouldn't object to a new 
HTTP driver being added to InstallMgr that might use this ls-lR file. 
Anyone want to write it?

	-Troy.





> 
> As to a common name, it is frequent to find a file with the name ls-lR 
> (often compressed as ls-lR.gz) on unix backed file systems that contains 
> a recursive long listing of the directory.
> 
> It would be very easy to create a cron job to create the files.
> 
> 
> Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> 
>> Joachim,
>>     I'm not sure exactly what you are saying, but let me repeat it and 
>> see if I kindof understand:
>>
>> Someone is using an FTP proxy setup which doesn't allow them to list 
>> files on the remote server?  And you'd like us to support that setup 
>> by maintaining file list catalog files in each module directory.
>>
>> If this is the case.  I don't think I am willing to support such a 
>> non-standard FTP setup that can't work with anything else.  How can 
>> someone really use FTP efficiently with any other server without being 
>> able to show file names?  I guess for grabbing a known file name, but 
>> that isn't really a functional FTP proxy.  InstallMgr works over FTP. 
>> If you want to use it, then you have to have working FTP access (via a 
>> proxy or whatever).  The work to maintain module file lists inside an 
>> extra file for every module (even though it can be automated) is more 
>> work that I am willing to do to support such a fringe setup.  What do 
>> you think?
>>
>>     -Troy.
>>
>>
>>
>> Joachim Ansorg wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>> I noticed a limitation in the InstallMgr component.
>>> If the used FTPTransport instance uses a proxy then dir listing on 
>>> the FTP server are not possible if a http proxy is used (which is 
>>> most often used, IMHO).
>>> Is it possible to have .mod_listing (or whatever name does fit) for 
>>> each module in it's data dir which contains the recursive listing 
>>> with the file sizes?
>>>
>>>
>>> Joachim
>>
>>
>>
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