Re: Dropping the (optional) gnome-vfs dependency

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'd personally advocate for #2, but I'm ok with #1 iff we remove the
> GnomeVFS code. I have no interest in maintaining 3 code paths, at
> least 1 of which is deprecated.
>
> We could use this as a kicking-off point to remove the few other
> places in our GTK+ port that use GnomeVFS (maybe the clipboard? GIO
> can handle mime types just as well). It'd be one fewer "GNOME"
> dependency that scares the bejeebuz out of some of our users.
>

Hi Dom,
       As long as you wrap GIO inside go_file_* I'm perfectly happy to
drop gnome-vfs. I recently had to do a bit of hacking to enable drag and
drop of images from firefox into abiword because we were missing some
gnome-vfs functionality though.

Cheers

Martin

> Cheers,
> Dom
Received on Fri Jul 18 03:37:32 2008