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authorSiddharth Ravikumar <sravik@bgsu.edu>2016-02-29 23:16:11 -0500
committerSiddharth Ravikumar <sravik@bgsu.edu>2016-02-29 23:16:11 -0500
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\url{https://bitbucket.org/bgsucodeloverslab/combox/src} and
\url{http://rsiddharth.ninth.su/git/cb.git/}.
+There are a lot of things that can be done to improve combox, what
+follows is a non-exhaustive list of things to do in the future:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item Make combox cognizant about space available on each node
+ directory. At the moment, combox reads the amount of free space
+ available on each node directory (file storage provider's directory)
+ when configuring combox a computer but does not use this information
+ to reckon the space left in each node directory.
+\item Re-think \verb+combox.events+ module. This module was written
+ with the assumption that combox will be the only one to make changes
+ to the node directories. This assumption was found to be not true
+ when manually testing combox with node clients (Google Drive and
+ Dropbox client that sync files from the respective node directories
+ to their respective servers); both the Google Drive and the Dropbox
+ client make modifications to the Google Drive and Dropbox directory
+ respectively whenever pulling a modified shard from their server to
+ this computer, this behavior broke combox and major changes were
+ made to the \verb+combox.events+ module to make it understand the
+ node client's behavior in the node directory; these changes,
+ increased the complexity of the classes defined in the
+ \verb+combox.events+; it would be great to re-think this module in
+ such a way that it reduces its complexity.
+\item Evaluate if more information needs to tracked about each file in
+ the combox directory; at the moment, combox only keeps track of the
+ SHA256 hash of each file stored in the combox directory.
+\item Support more file storage providers; for this, ideally no code
+ needs to be written for supporting a new file storage provider,
+ combox must be tested with the new file storage provider's directory
+ as a node directory. If the new file storage provider's client (that
+ sync's the shards their servers) makes non-standard changes to its
+ directory (like the official Dropbox and Google Drive clients do),
+ then the \verb+combox.events.NodeDirMonitor+ must be accordingly
+ updated to make combox cognizant about the file storage provider
+ client's non-standard behavior.
+\item Make unit tests more modular. At the moment, there are some unit
+ test function that test more than one usecase/facet of a function or
+ class; for instance, the \verb+test_CDM+ test method part of the the
+ \verb+tests.events_test.TestEvents+ test class tests the correctness
+ of the \verb+combox.events.ComboxDirMonitor+ for file creation,
+ deletion, rename and modification; this method would ideally broken
+ down into four tests methods.
+\item Make combox Python 3 compatible. The \verb+2to3+ program (which
+ is part of the standard Python library since Python version 2.6) and
+ the \verb+six+ library can be used to achieve this. See Appendix
+ \ref{a-python3c} for more information on this.
+\item Support Microsoft Windows. The way to make combox compatible
+ with Windows will be to run unit tests on Windows, the failing tests
+ might give pointers to what parts of combox needs to be changed in
+ order for it to be compatible with Windows. Individuals interested
+ in making combox compatible with Windows might find
+ \url{https://ricketyspace.net/combox/setup/#windows} this useful; it
+ contains information about setting up the development environment
+ for combox on Windows.
+\end{itemize}
+