Re: GnomeVFS backend for GtkFileChooser

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 09:26, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > The foo/fooui library splits were done to allow apps to avoid relying on
> > an X connection, or linking to all the X/GTK+ libs if they aren't GUI
> > apps. But what we're talking about here has nothing to do with that.
> > It's simply an issue of the build graph. And there are no requirements
> > on the build graph other than "no cycles"
> 
> Really? How do you implement an interface without linking to the
> library?
> 
> In particular, how would you call:
>   g_type_add_interface_static (file_system_gnome_vfs_type,
>                                GTK_TYPE_FILE_SYSTEM,
>                                &file_system_info);
> 
> without linking to the library that defines gtk_file_system_get_type().
> 
> You can't. So, either:
> a) gtk_file_system_get_type() goes in some lib below gtk+
> b) gnome-vfs links to gtk+
> c) the gnome-vfs implemenation of GtkFileSystem goes in libgnomeui
> 
> pick your poison.
> 
> Personally, I favour c.

gnome-vfs just builds a separate module and drops it into place; a
different shared object.

Regards,
						Owen