sister project: decoyfs
hydrargyrum opened this issue · 4 comments
A few weeks ago, I had a similar need to catcli but didn't know about catcli, so I built my own indexer and a fuse filesystem for browsing an offline catalog: decoyfs. Today I came across catcli and realized things would have been different if I found it before :)
I added a converter tool in decoyfs so it can load catcli catalogs and show it as a vfs. decoyfs has a quite liberal license, so feel free to steal some code if you want a fuse filesystem for catcli!
hey @hydrargyrum, thanks a lot for the convertor. I really like the fuse filesystem approach, that's pretty neat. Yeah if that's ok with you I might integrate a fuse filesystem in catcli.
Yes, you can go for it, that's what free software is for after all! I can help with some of the fuse stuff if you want (I made decoyfs really quick-and-dirty, there's room for improvement anyway).
@hydrargyrum catcli now supports fuse filesystem through the use of the command line action mount, see the related doc in the readme.
Thanks again for the heads-up!
You're welcome :)
happy if it helped