Post #4135970
2026-07-01 07:14 UTC
…I think the worst part of Apple file providers is the underestimation of their complexity in practical implementation. The (nowadays existing) documentation reads rather simple.
At my previous job we worked full time on a file provider with four people for two years until we had a 1.0.0 release. And later we still started over from scratch to get it right after figuring things out by experience.
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@i2h3@toot.community 2026-07-01 07:17
Most issues in file providers arise from trying to bridge significantly different concepts and patterns which were designed decades apart. Given server APIs designed with file providers in mind, it would be much easier. Most importantly: change detection at scale. I mean: many clients, many folders and many files. Each with a bunch of trailing zeros in number.