[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1409: remove contrib/fuse

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#1409: remove contrib/fuse
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     Reporter:  zooko        |      Owner:  zooko
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  assigned
     Priority:  minor        |  Milestone:  1.9.0
    Component:  contrib      |    Version:  1.8.2
   Resolution:               |   Keywords:  fuse
Launchpad Bug:               |
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Comment (by zooko):

 The immediate cause of bitrot is that we are removing support for old-
 style config files (#1385), and some of the contrib/fuse modules use that
 config file format. The real problem though is that they don't have unit
 tests so there is no easy way to be sure that any change I make to them
 doesn't break them, or to know if they are already broken. Also, as
 mentioned, there is a fully-supported alternative now in the form of the
 SFTP server.

 That said, there might be advantages to one of these approaches as
 compared to the SFTP server approach. (Certainly one advantage would be
 that you don't require a separate tool, the way the SFTP server requires
 sshfs, to get FUSE integration.)

 So, if anyone is interested in maintaining and updating these tools,
 please adopt them and move them into a new source tree and let us know.

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