The newly released LUFS-Python is a Python interface to the Linux Usermode File System, and it looks pretty neat.
Since I hadn’t even heard of LUFS, before, I went and installed1 it tonight, then used the provided ssh file system to connect to my web host. It all just works. I can edit my website’s files like they were on a local disk, though saves are a little slow.
Simon Willison and his readers have some neat ideas about what you could do with LUFS-Python, assuming the combination of LUFS and Python is stable enough.
Myself, I’d like to build a filesystem interface for CVS, mostly as an academic exercise.
1 Thanks to the Power Of Gentoo Linux, ‘installed’ is really too grand a word for the process. I simply typed ‘emerge -s lufs’ to search for a lufs ebuild – version 0.9.5 was available, and then ‘emerge lufs’ to download and compile it. A few minutes later, LUFS was up an running. Even less fuss than a typical Windows, “Next, Next, I Agree, Next, Next, Next” install.
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Is there anything Gentoo can not do? I luv it like I have never loved an operating system before.