Re: [ITP] FUSE 2.8

[Adrien JUND <liryna.stark@gmail.com>]

Excellent idea Bill !
I am absolutely willing to do it !

Dokan install folder can also be retrieved from the registry so it is
a way to go with dlopen and dlsym mechanism.

Since I think all fuse wrapper in this fuse project should propose the
same FUSE VERSION,
I will need some time for updating it Dokan fuse that is currently 2.7
when WinFSP is 2.8.

Thank you Mark Geisert for willing to maintain it !

2016-07-26 20:38 GMT+02:00 Bill Zissimopoulos <billziss@navimatics.com>:
> On 7/25/16, 11:27 PM, Mark Geisert wrote:
>
>
>>Bill Zissimopoulos writes:
>>> - Rename the package to winfsp-fuse, but have it somehow “satisfy”
>>> packages that require “fuse” (e.g. SSHFS, FUSEPY). This would allow
>>> multiple *-fuse packages to exist in the setup database and the user
>>> chooses which one they want. My understanding based on Marco’s answer is
>>> that this is not currently supported by Cygwin’s dependency system.
>>
>>You could define a package "fuse" with no contents and a dependency on
>>package "winfsp-fuse".  Then later when/if another FUSE implementation
>>becomes available, "somebody" could replace the "fuse" package with
>>whatever is required to get alternatives support for the variants.
>
> BTW, here is another alternative that I have been mulling around.
>
> I can take the current Cygwin package source, place it under a liberal
> license like the BSD and create a separate project out of it. The intent
> of the new project would be to support different FUSE solutions for
> Windows using a *single* package. Currently it only supports WinFsp, but
> it could be modified to support Dokany or other solutions.
>
> There are many benefits to such an approach IMO:
>
> - A single FUSE package and a single cygfuse.dll.
> - Works out of the box with all supported Windows user mode file system
> solutions.
> - No changes in Cygwin’s dependency system or setup.exe required.
> - No user confusion.
>
> The current FUSE package is actually very simple. It looks in the registry
> to see if/where WinFsp is installed and then loads the WinFsp DLL using
> dlopen and the WinFsp-FUSE symbols using dlsym. Presumably the same
> technique could work with Dokany or other solution.
>
> https://github.com/billziss-gh/winfsp/tree/master/opt/cygfuse
>
> To clarify I do not volunteer to maintain such a project. Only to
> kickstart it by contributing the existing package code. I would hope that
> another maintainer emerges, one who is both unaffiliated to the existing
> projects (Dokany, WinFsp, etc.) to ensure fairness and one that has
> Cygwin’s interests in mind.
>
> Let me know.
>
> Bill
>