Re: GnomeVFS depends on Bonobo now

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Michael Meeks wrote:

> Dude !


Guys ! ;)


> On 27 Jul 2001, Seth Nickell wrote:
>
> > I just committed a metadata idl interface. A more "easy to use"
> > interface with sugar on top will be appearing soon, so this is not of
> > concern to most people at this time... I just wanted to give warning
> > that GnomeVFS now depends on Bonobo, so update your build scripts.


Maybe that's a stupid question, but I don't understand what the benefit 
is, because I don't understand what this does. Can you explain what this 
is all about for the ignorants like me ?


> 	In which case, may I apologise unreservedly for lambasting you on
> IRC about it :-) I think you made the right call.
>
> 	The obvious point for consideration is now the file / vfs IO
> monikers. I think the right place for the 'vfs:' and 'file:' monikers,
> that currently live inside libgnome/monikers ( basicaly the
> libmoniker_gnome_std_la_SOURCES block of code ) is inside gnome-vfs.
>
> 	Do you agree ? may I do some CVS / autoconf surgery to move them
> in there ?; clearly the 'vfs:' moniker as a whole is quite unsatisfactory,
> and in the future we'll perhaps want to have a more stream based internal
> structure to both the monikers and gnome-vfs storage modules, but for now
> it seems like a quick fix to unify the two easily. And conceptualy it all
> belongs in gnome-vfs I would suggest ?


If you have vfs:// and you need to access a camera:// uri, how would 
that work ? Or have I missed something again ?

Sorry chaps, maybe I just don't understand monikers, please give me clue.


Cheers

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