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diff --git a/report/chapters/5-con-f.tex b/report/chapters/5-con-f.tex index f6193ec..bf45478 100644 --- a/report/chapters/5-con-f.tex +++ b/report/chapters/5-con-f.tex @@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ combox is at a stage where it can be used as a tool to use the storage provided by two file storage providers -- Google Drive and Dropbox -- such that only part of each file in the encrypted form is stored on the data store of the file storage providers. This method of storing -files on file storage providers makes it difficult, but not impossible, -for file storage providers or ``third parties'' to gain access to the -user's personal files. +files on file storage providers makes it difficult, but not +impossible, for file storage providers or ``third parties'' to gain +access to the user's personal files. combox is at version 0.2.3, it is a python package licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. It is compatible with @@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ follows is a non-exhaustive list of things to do in the future: directory. At the moment, combox reads the amount of free space available on each node directory (file storage provider's directory) when configuring combox on a computer but does not use this - information to reckon the space left in each node directory. The major issue here is how to determine what space is available without interacting with a service provider's API or asking the end user. + information to reckon the space left in each node directory. The + major issue here is how to determine what space is available without + interacting with a service provider's API or asking the end user. \item Re-think \verb+combox.events+ module. This module was written @@ -63,11 +65,11 @@ follows is a non-exhaustive list of things to do in the future: 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 data store) 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. + sync's the shards their data store) 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 functions that test more than one usecase/facet of a function @@ -92,4 +94,3 @@ follows is a non-exhaustive list of things to do in the future: contains information about setting up the development environment for combox on Windows. \end{itemize} - |