libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes
hierarchical data of all kinds through a common
C++ interface. Access to data is performed using
C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be
attached to each file or directory to present
metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various
data sources and expose them as filesystems and to
generate interesting EA. Current implementations
include native (kernel disk IO with fam), XML (mount an XML file as a filesystem), DB4, xmldb, Evolution, Firefox, Emacs, LDAP, HTTP, FTP, eet,
sockets, RDF/XML, RDF/bdb, and mbox. EA generators
include image, audio, and animation decoders.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The code was ported to the XQilla 2.x API,
including initial support for XUpdate in the
custom XQilla-ferris document model. pqxx is now a
soft dependancy, as was originally intended. Minor
updates were made for building on the Maemo
platform. Minor fixes were made to EXIF longitude and
latidude handling.
