S3 API vs AWS

[Tom Glod]

Sweet.....Thank you for the update.


On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 1:03 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
>   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
>
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