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diff --git a/doc/todo/support_for_writing_external_special_remotes.mdwn b/doc/todo/support_for_writing_external_special_remotes.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 1732f77ea..000000000 --- a/doc/todo/support_for_writing_external_special_remotes.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -It would be good to have something in between the hook special remote and -the built-in special remotes. The hook is easy to set up, but its simple -interface misses some features that a more full-features interface could -provide to a third-party program that wants to provide the best possible -special remote it can w/o being written in haskell: - -* No way to send progress updates when uploading, so no progress bars for uploads from hook special remotes in the webapp. -* No way to verify the `initremote` parameters include all needed configuration, and do any initalization needed. -* No way to query and/or set the remote.log while it's running. (Well, technically, `git annex enableremote` can set values..) -* No way to store per-key information to the git-annex branch. -* No (easy) way to split files into chunks. - -Some of these features could be added to git-annex as subcommands. Which would -improve the general programmability and flexability of git-annex. OTOH, -running `git-annex upload-progress` repeatedly is pretty ugly. Or the -interface could provide a channel for the program and git-annex to -communicate back and forth on. Maybe a mix of the two? - -A final feature such an interface should provide is the ability to drop a -program into PATH and have it just work, without the user needing to do any -configuration beyond `initremote`. So, `git annex initremote foo type=$bar` -should look for `git-annex-remote-$bar` in PATH if that's not a built-in -special remote name. - ---[[Joey]] - -[[done]] |