Re: The storage interface cleanup

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

> > I am talking about the IDL changes, which are sort of frozen beginning
> > with GNOME 1.4.  After this point, the interfaces will be published,
> > and the only real fix would be to have two interfaces for streaming
> > (Stream and Stream2, PersistStream and PersistStream2, Storage and
> > Storage2, PeristStorage and PersistStorage2) and applications would
> > have to support them both.
> 
> They could support them both, if we needed to be compatible with old
> components. But I don't see why you say they would *have* to support them
> both.

It seems like a lot of pain inflicted on everyone for the sake of
a few changes to Nautilus as Dietmar pointed out. 

> We could require revving both components and applications at the Gnome 2.0
> time frame. I understand you don't *want* to do that, but I haven't heard
> any specific reasons why it's such a terrible idea.

Because it is lame.  I had hoped you could figure why this is lame,
but I will explain:

	* Because not every component might transition to supporting
          the two interfaces at the same time.

	* Because I will hate to tell people `we have a kickass
          component architecture', `oh, and btw, and you have to
          implement streams twice, and storages twice, but never mind
          that'.  Which just sounds retarded.

	* Because of each of the 4 possible combinations that
          components might support, half of it is a losing
          combination.

	* Because we can not have a UNIX component architecture if
          every application is going to have a different set of
          interfaces it will support.

Miguel.