Re: Gnome VFS - plans for Gnome 2.8

[aigiskos <aigiskos yahoo com>]

On the other hand, if libsoup can implement what you
want rather easily and if libsoup is likely to become
part of the GNOME desktop and, perhaps, platform, then
using libsoup with GnomeVFS would be preferable to
avoid library bloat.  How many networkng libraries do
we really need?  It sounds like the Ximian guys are
willing to work with you to make libsoup fit your
needs and that libsoup will be an actively maintained
(and used) library by GNOME developers.  These factors
appear to be big benefits for the choice of libsoup
over neon.  

--- Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 21:41, Dan Winship wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 13:09, Alexander Larsson
> wrote:
> > > In fact, from a quick look at libsoup it seems
> to have the same problems
> > > that all other non-neon libraries i've looked at
> had wrt gnome-vfs use.
> > > Its mainly built for async use, and it uses an
> "get whole file, with
> > > callbacks when you get data blocks" style of
> operation while gnome-vfs
> > > needs more of a "request block of data" style of
> API (like the posix
> > > read()/write() calls).
> > 
> > This would not be difficult to implement. It's
> just a matter of having
> > the main I/O code return after each read/write
> rather than looping until
> > it's done (and adding some new API to take
> advantage of that).
> 
> Its also not difficult to use an existing, well
> tested library (neon),
> that we in fact already have an almost finished
> gnome-vfs backend
> already written for, and that we know has the API
> needed to implement
> all the needed features.
> 
>
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