chatting with peter, two things the mac gui needed were the ability to mount
the 'allmydata drive' automatically upon launching the app, and open the
Finder to reveal it. (also a request to hide the debug 'open webroot' stuff)
this (somewhat rough) patch implements all the above as default behaviour
it also contains a quick configuration mechanism for the gui - rather than a
preferences gui, running with a more 'tahoe' styled mechanism, the contents
of a few optional files can modify the default behaviour, specifically file
in ~/.tahoe/gui.conf control behaviour as follows:
auto-mount (bool): if set (the default) then the mac app will, upon launch
automatically mount the 'tahoe:' alias with the display name 'Allmydata'
using a mountpoint of ~/.tahoe/mnt/__auto__
auto-open (bool): if set (the default) then upon mounting a file system
(including the auto-mount if set) finder will be opened to the mountpoint
of the filesystem, which essentially reveals the newly mounted drive in a
Finder window
show-webopen (bool): if set (false by default) then the 'open webroot'
action will be made available in both the dock and file menus of the app
daemon-timout (int): sets the daemon-timeout option passed into tahoe fuse
when a filesystem is mounted. this defaults to 5 min
files of type (int) much, naturally contain a parsable int representation.
files of type (bool) are considered true if their (case-insensitive) contents
are any of ['y', 'yes', 'true', 'on', '1'] and considered false otherwise.
both peter and I independently tried to do the same thing to eliminate the
authorized_keys file which was causing problems with the broken mac build
(c.f. #522) namely mv authorized_keys.8223{,.bak} but the node is, ahem,
let's say 'intolerant' of the trailing .bak - rather than disable the
manhole as one might expect, it instead causes the node to explode on
startup. this patch makes it skip over anything that doesn't pass the
'parse this trailing stuff as an int' test.
the tahoefuse command line options changed to support the runtests harness,
and as part of that gained support for named aliases via --alias
this changes the mac app's invocation of tahoefuse to match that, and also
changes the gui to present the list of defined aliases as valid mounts
this replaces the previous logic which examined the ~/.tahoe/private directory
looking for files ending in '.cap' - an ad-hoc alias mechanism.
if a file is found matching ~/.tahoe/private/ALIASNAME.icns then that will still
be passed to tahoefuse as the icon to display for that filesystem. if no such
file is found, the allmydata icon will be used by default.
the '-olocal' option is passed to tahoefuse. this is potentially contentious.
specifically this is telling the OS that this is a 'local' filesystem, which is
intended to be used to locally attached devices. however leopard (OSX 10.5)
will only display non-local filesystems in the Finder's side bar if they are of
fs types specifically known by Finder to be network file systems (nfs, cifs,
webdav, afp) hence the -olocal flag is the only way on leopard to cause finder
to display the mounted filesystem in the sidebar, but it displays as a 'device'.
there is a potential (i.e. the fuse docs carry warnings) that this may cause
vague and unspecified undesirable behaviour.
(c.f. http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/FAQ specifically Q4.3 and Q4.1)
in the recent reconciliation of webopen patches, I wound up adjusting
webopen to 'pass through' the state of the trailing slash on the given
argument to the resultant url passed to the browser. this change
removes the requirement that arguments must be directories, and allows
webopen to be used with files. it also broke the tests that assumed
that webopen would always normalise the url to have a trailing slash.
in fixing the tests, I realised that, IMHO, there's something deeply
awry with the way tahoe handles paths; specifically in the combination
of '/' being the name of the root path within an alias, but a leading
slash on paths, e.g. 'alias:/path', is catagorically incorrect. i.e.
'tahoe:' == 'tahoe:/' == '/'
but 'tahoe:/foo' is an invalid path, and must be 'tahoe:foo'
I wound up making the internals of webopen simply spot a 'path' of
'/' and smash it to '', which 'fixes' webopen to match the behaviour
of tahoe's path handling elsewhere, but that special case sort of
points to the weirdness.
(fwiw, I personally found the fact that the leading / in a path was
disallowed to be weird - I'm just used to seeing paths qualified by
the leading / I guess - so in a debate about normalising path handling
I'd vote to include the /)
I think this is largely attributable to a cleanup patch I'd made
which never got committed upstream somehow, but at any rate various
conflicting changes to webopen had been made. This cleans up the
conflicts therein, and hopefully brings 'tahoe webopen' in line with
other cli commands.
moved the body of webopen out of cli.py into tahoe_webopen.py
made its invocation consistent with the other cli commands, most
notably replacing its 'vdrive path' with the same alias parsing,
allowing usage such as 'tahoe webopen private:Pictures/xti'
This should make it sufficiently fast, while still giving a better answer on Ubuntu than platform.dist() currently does, and also falling back to lsb_release if platform.dist() says that it doesn't know.
* the two kinds of immutable filenode now have a common base class
* they store only an instance of their URI, not both an instance and a string
* they delegate comparison to that instance
to make the internal ones use binary strings (nodeid, storage index) and
the web/JSON ones use base32-encoded strings. The immutable verifier is
still incomplete (it returns imaginary healty results).
