[s3-dev] Renewed activity

[Marcel Molina Jr.]

Howdy folks, it's been pretty quite around here. I wanted to let everyone
know that I've started working on making long over due updates to the aws-s3
library.

I've moved it over to GitHub as per some people's requests:
http://github.com/marcel/aws-s3/tree

If you are a developer actively modifying the source for your own purposes
you'll want to start fetching the latest from my master on github.

Major releases will continue to be available on RubyForge so you'll be able
to install and update via RubyGems as usual.

I'm currently doing some preliminary modernization in preperation for bug
fixes and new features. Specifically I'm changing all the hand-rolled mocking
in the tests to use FlexMock. This has no impact on you unless you are or
plan to be actively developing the source. You'll just need flexmock
installed if so.

I'm also finding parts of the implementation quite over engineered and
complex. I'd like to simplify bits that are unecessarily complicated (without
breaking backwards compat, of course).

Once I have the tests modernized and the foundation simplified, I plan on
doing the following:

* Replace the ad hoc S3Object.copy I implemented before there was actual copy
support in the API.

* Take into account EU buckets

* Fix all the bugs in the tracker

Once all those things are done I'll cut a new release.

marcel
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Marcel Molina Jr. <marcel at vernix.org>