S3 API vs AWS

[Richard Gaskin]

Good news for those following along: Mark Clark's request has just had 
its status changed to "AWAITING_MERGE", so any compliant S3 storage 
should be addressable with the lib included in the next release.

https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22919

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems


Tom Glod wrote:

 > Hi Mark,
 >
 > I appreciate your interest in this.
 > I agree that it would be interesting to have minio directly inside
 > LC via widgets,
 > What advantage would there be to that vs updating the aws library
 > to work?
...
 > On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 1:35 PM Mark Clark wrote:
 >
 >> Since I posted the enhancement request for a non-AWS S3 endpoint,
 >> thought I might chime in a bit on S3. I worked with AB and Harsha
 >> (founders of Minio) in a past life when they were at Gluster
 >> (acquired by RedHat) and I was at a company called Compellent
 >> (acquired by DELL). Knowing those two I believed their notion of
 >> a developer-centric open source object store was a winning idea.
 >>
 >> Kevin and everyone at LiveCode get a *lot* of people pulling at
 >> them for attention. I’m in awe of their ability to do so much with
 >> relatively few resources. Back in 2016 they were tremendously busy,
 >> which is still true for 2021:)
 >>
 >> Currently I use Minio in a production environment and since LiveCode
 >> doesn’t natively support it, I wrote a simple server back end to
 >> handle client requests that require object. LiveCode is not what we
 >> use to build our products, but it sure has come in handy for
 >> prototyping our UI and doing IT style apps in the back office.
 >>
 >> In retrospect I should have banged the drums with the whole community
 >> and pushed this idea of putting some money behind the request. But
 >> those darn day jobs get in the way, sometimes.
 >>
 >> Minio + LC = Goodness, even if you have to use shell and mc under the
 >> hood:)
 >>
 >> Mark