From: gabriele renzi Date: 2004-03-31T05:54:25+09:00 Subject: Re: deciding between ruby and python il 30 Mar 2004 17:55:25 GMT, ptkwt@aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) ha scritto:: > >does vfs == "virtual file system" ? yes >Meaning that you can access a URL >just the same way you would access a file on your system? yes I'm aware of open-uri and I do agree it is impressive and useful, but, it has the problem of just being.. well.. 'open' :) For example, it does not allow handling of Dir objects out of the local fs. A true vfs layer should allow stuff like this: ruby -r vfs -run cp -- -r ~/works/myweb ftp://user:pass@myserver/home/myid/public_html More, it should allow to us to plug modules to handle everything like zip, bzip2, sftp and so on. (I'm not sure tclvfs does this, but I believe it should). For an example of what I'm talking about take a look at GnomeVFS (yes, we can use it from ruby :), or at libvfs that is on RAA (the former example came from that). I believe something like this in the base distribution would be lovely :)