Re: Module proposal: gio and gvfs for gnome 2.22?

["Alex Graveley" <alex beatniksoftware com>]

Seems like it might be less risky to start in 2.22 by porting all the
simpler load/save gnome-vfs users to gio first, to flesh out the API.

Replacing an API which has been stable for a few years with an API
that hasn't seen much review, has had no releases, and has had no
applications ported to use it scares me.

If load/save is what most people use gnome-vfs for, why not write a
tiny library with a tiny API that does this well, instead of
introducing an entire IO framework?  Then this library could be
implemented using gnome-vfs, or gio, or kio, or fuse, or posix, or
win32 on the backend.   (Maybe even made part of fdo.)  Keeping the
API tiny would avoid conflicting with the myriad IO frameworks that
exist in the high level language platforms.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding and that's the intent of libgio?

-Alex

On 9/24/07, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 10:37 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> > On 9/24/07, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> > > I've been working on gvfs and gio for a while, and its starting to reach
> > > some minimal level of maturity.
> >
> > As long as there is consensus on a path from gnome-vfs to gio+gvfs, I
> > would like to see this in 2.22. Which module are you proposing?
> > Platform? And how long will the transition from gnome-vfs be allowed?
>
> I'm thinking maybe Desktop for now, since the API is young and we don't
> want to freeze it to early.
>
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