Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> As many of you may know, GnomeVFS has somewhat recently been
> deprecated by the Gnome folks in favor of GIO, a cross-platform
> virtual filesystem thingie that's built into Glib. Most anything that
> GnomeVFS can do, GIO can do too (often better, and it'll work on Win32
> and OSX too).
>
> About 4 months ago, I added GIO support to libgsf, which is the
> library that AbiWord uses for all file-related things.
>
> I'd like to add GIO support to AbiWord. Mostly, this will involve
> changing ut_go_file.cpp to use GIO functions instead of their GnomeVFS
> equivalents, and returning the new GIO-based GSF classes where
> appropriate.
>
> What I want is to see what the consensus is around the following options:
>
> 1) Are people ok with this as an optional dependency?
> 2) What about as a hard dependency?
> 3) If you want it optional, what are your thoughts about
> keeping/removing the existing optional GnomeVFS support?
>
> I'd personally advocate for #2
Yes please, as hard dependency (there are good reasons for GnomeVFS
being deprecated in favour of gio).
Tomas
Received on Thu Jul 17 18:17:44 2008
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