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[lbergelson]

Hi @magicDGS,

I hope things are going well! I'm looking at adding native support for URL's to GATK and I was going to use your library as a starting point. Do you have any interest/availability in continuing work on this? I'm going to fork the project and start doing some work on it. If you're interested I'm happy to work with you together on it, or I can just do the work on my own.

[magicDGS]

Hello @lbergelson, I'm interested on continuing but I had a break because some personal infrastructure problems. I will be glad to get any contribution to the project and keep working on it if there's interest, as I think that it will also help with other projects that I have ongoing.

What's about working on a roadmap of what's needed (in addition to the current issues) and prioritising it? Let me know what you think, also possible by email if you want.

[lbergelson]

Good to hear! I hope you're doing well.

I've started putting together a hacky branch to try and and get a very simple workflow running on http urls in gatk, which seems to work at least for small data.

There are a number of missing methods that gatk expects

1. File attribute getters
2. Path name decomposition methods
3. Ability to resolve paths against each other.

I built a fork that merges your branch that adds relative path support, and adds a few hacks to bludgeon some other stuff through. It seems to work, although I suspect there will probably be issues running at scale because of temporary connectivity errors and such.