From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Oct 25 2003 - 17:33:06 EDT
Gsf is a project that Jody, Morten, and Jon from
Gnumeric and I were working on a while. It's an
Input/Output abstraction layer. It's capable of
reading and writing to things like:
Memory Buffers
Ordinary Files
Bonobo Objects
Windows IStreams/ADODB Streams
GnomeVFS streams
Glib GIOChannels
...
It's capable of also handling compression seamlessly
(gzip, bzip supported now). It also has a bunch of XML
utilities. It also is a compound file abstraction - so
that it can seamlessly handle ZIP, OLE2, TAR.GZ,
etc... compound archives.
Gnumeric already uses this. I'm about to create a
branch of Abi that also uses it. Right now I have a
*really* rough prototype that I don't like a whole
lot. But it works for our XML inputs.
Screenshot for the masses: this is Abi reading a file
from our beloved webserver, Nyorp.
http://www.abisource.com/~dom/abi-gsf.png
Expect lots of improvements to happen in this upcoming
branch, until everything of ours is capable of reading
and writing to just about any medium you can imagine.
Cheers,
Dom
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