Ruby mogilefs-client 3.7.0 released

Ruby
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A MogileFS client library for Ruby. MogileFS is an open source
distributed filesystem, see: http://mogilefs.org/ for more details.
This
library allows any Ruby application to read, write and delete files in a
MogileFS instance.

To install: gem install mogilefs-client

mogilefs :: http://mogilefs.org/
rdoc :: mogilefs-client - MogileFS client library for Ruby
list :: [email protected]
email :: [email protected]
repo :: git://bogomips.org/mogilefs-client.git
cgit :: MogileFS client library for Ruby
gitweb :: Public Git Hosting - ruby-mogilefs-client.git/summary
download :: Index of /mogilefs-client/files/

Changes since 3.6.0:

MogileFS::MogileFS#each_key now accepts optional :after and :limit
args

This allows easy iteration while respecting :after and :limit,
giving each_key an interface consistent with each_file_info.

No admin changes.

Have fun!

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Eric W. [email protected] wrote:

A MogileFS client library for Ruby. MogileFS is an open source
distributed filesystem, see: http://mogilefs.org/ for more details. This
library allows any Ruby application to read, write and delete files in a
MogileFS instance.

Just pushed out 3.7.1 with only one bugfix:

new_file/stream: correct declare errors array correctly

This only triggered on rare syscall errors
(Errno::EMFILE/Errno::ENFILE)

To install: gem install mogilefs-client

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ZOMG WHY DON’T YOU USE GITHUB? IT IS SOOO MUCH EEEEEASIER

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Ryan D. [email protected] wrote:

ZOMG WHY DON’T YOU USE GITHUB? IT IS SOOO MUCH EEEEEASIER

LOL.

Anyways, I’ve had many similar questions over the years but not
on ruby-talk, so here goes…

My distaste of corporate-controlled/single-vendor solutions is the
reason I’m involved with Free Software in the first place. This
also extends to my interest/involvement with MogileFS.

I am very much a Free Software zealot[1]

GitHub adds proprietary features, and I cannot endorse that.

  • their Pull Requests don’t work with repos hosted outside of GitHub.
    git is supposed to be decentralized/distributed, yet GitHub ignores
    repos they don’t host.

    As far as I know, these Pull Requests cannot even be disabled
    (unlike issues or wiki)

    The “git request-pull” command (in core git, but not well-known) works
    via email (or NNTP or anything) and does not care where the repo is
    (but it does ensure the correct branch is pushed)

  • GitHub is a single point of failure. I’ve seen users become so
    dependent on GitHub they lose the ability to use git (or even
    communicate(!)) without GitHub.

    GitHub supporters can say all they want about how git is still
    distributed, but folks still care and wonder why projects are not on
    GitHub. So yes, that’s enough indication folks depend too much
    features exclusive to GitHub.

    The value GitHub provides is not the repository hosting itself,
    but as a communications platform (which they control).

  • the social network/graph is exclusive to their site, so non-GH-users
    are automatically second-class citizens. This wouldn’t be too bad
    if I could create a new account for every project, except…

  • their ToS limits users to one account

    I believe identity is prismatic, even in the FOSS world.

    I hate having accomplishments/baggage being carried across projects.
    I maintain no personal webpage nor remotely-complete social networking
    profiles for this reason. Fuck badges.

To their credit, GitHub has not yet introduced proprietary changes to
the data model of git; only extensions to the UIs. And fortunately,
several GH-using projects I care about do accept patches and
pull-requests sent via email.

I don’t know what the future holds. Distributed/decentralized solutions
are harder to use and maintain. Also (at least in the US),
residential Internet access is not friendly towards self-hosting.

Even relying on mailing lists is a compromise and I wish for something
truly decentralized for communications.

[1] I’d never engage in campaigning style of the FSF, though