[TIP] virtual filesystem

[Barry Warsaw]

On Dec 07, 2011, at 04:30 PM, Jonathan Lange wrote:

>bzrlib[1] takes the approach of abstracting out the filesystem using
>what it calls "Transports". It's not really the filesystem, it's
>actually also for FTP, HTTP etc. Anyway, they have a MemoryTransport,
>which never actually hits disk at all, and is great for testing. I've
>found myself using this from bzrlib in other projects.
>
>They prevent interface skew by having one set of tests that run
>against every transport implementation. Whenever they discover some
>buggy behaviour variance, they add tests to this "interface suite".

Sound like it could make a good candidate for refactoring out into a separate
library. <wink>

-Barry
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