Re: Commit: some GnomeVFS support


Subject: Re: Commit: some GnomeVFS support
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 11:11:21 CST


>This is a really cool feature! Now we can download a HTML/abw/rtf/doc...
>etc file straight into abiword and save it right back again.

Assuming that your HTTP server has PUT support, then yeah :) Doing the
exporters was relatively easy and clean - not too many #ifdef's. The
importers will be a bitch though. Why? Well, it means porting Expat,
LixXML2, Libole2, and Psiconv to use VFS besides our text-based importers.

>This will save me tons of time and disk space. Are there any intrepid
>gnome developers interested in adding hyperlink support though
>gnome-vfs? Then abi could view it's own help files on gnome.

That's the idea behind it. Of course, our HTML importer isn't quite
state-of-the-art : we don't do images, tables, or JavaScript ;(

>Will gnome-vfs handle ssh?

If it doesn't handle it right now, it could easily do it. All you need to
code is a backend.

Dom

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