Re: Dropping the (optional) gnome-vfs dependency

Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 11:41 -0400, 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 think we should keep GnomeVFS support if that's not to much but
> prefere GIO support. The problem is that GIO is still not THAT
> widespread. For example on SUSE, it is only on openSUSE 11. SLED 10 does
> not have it. Etc.
Maemo doesn't have it either. and that poor port has enough troubles...

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