Re: Just change release date (Was Re: State of gvfs in Gnome 2.21)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 02:36 +0000, Rob Taylor wrote:
> Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> > Op dinsdag 12-02-2008 om 13:30 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Shaun
> > McCance:
> > 
> >> I've used it for grabbing tarballs from ftp.gnome.org.  Unfortunately,
> >> it's not as useful as it could be, since the gnome-vfs ftp backend
> >> doesn't follow symlinks.  So if you try to use Nautilus to grab all
> >> the .tar.gz files for a release, you'll be sorely disappointed.
> > 
> > As long as the FTP backend isn't finished, would it be an option to
> > allow distributors to make nautilus use something like FUSE on-the-fly?
> > (Yes I know, FUSE is Linux only, so I'm not suggesting a hard
> > dependency.)
> 
> FUSE isn't linux-only any more, it seems only Windows is the major OS
> without some form of support -
> http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/OperatingSystems
> 
> A generic way of registering a fuse file system to mount for a given url
> type could be pretty cool IMHO. Especially if it could mount in a hidden
> directory and hide that from the user.

Well, gvfs already does this for the uris it supports. Its one of the
main features of it. Any app can open and save to files on gvfs shares.