Re: libefs/gnome-vfs/bonobo

[Michael Meeks <michael helixcode com>]

Hi Mathieu,

On 26 Jul 2000, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> Would it be possible to move gnome-vfs's efs method
> from gnome-vfs to bonobo ?
  
        There is currently an efs storage / stream method in bonobo and
also one in gnome-vfs. I had assumed that it was technicaly best to do    
file system stuff in the vfs; you seem to suggest you disagree.

> Basically, gnome-vfs depends on bonobo because it uses libefs

        Incorrect, gnome-vfs has an optional dependency on libefs, this is
a separate CVS module that is virtually linked into bonobo. There should  
be no problem with this ever, but if there is simply checkout libefs and  
install it before gnome-vfs. Do you have a real dependency problem that   
stops you from building ?

> and bonobo depends on gnome-vfs for something ( I don't remember why
> but it has something to do with storages.
        
        Bonobo has an optional dependency on gnome-vfs which I had hoped  
to move to entirely to do our direct storage code, the problem is that  
gnome-vfs' API doesn't support transactions which is rather an important
part of what we want from a storage, furthermore depending on gnome-vfs
causes problems with trying to release bonobo. So I have just disabled
the bonobo vfs storage modules, so there is now no dependency on
gnome-vfs in bonobo.
  
        Regards,
  
                Michael.

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