Re: The storage interface cleanup

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com> writes:

> > So if it was our choice alone (Eazel, I mean, not the Nautilus team as a
> > whole), we'd suggest deferring these changes to Bonobo 2.0.
> 
> I am talking about the IDL changes, which are sort of frozen beginning
> with GNOME 1.4.  After this point, the interfaces will be published,
> and the only real fix would be to have two interfaces for streaming
> (Stream and Stream2, PersistStream and PersistStream2, Storage and
> Storage2, PeristStorage and PersistStorage2) and applications would
> have to support them both.
> 

Apps will have to support both if they care about working with old
components. Maybe some apps won't (Nautilus will probably continue to
care about any load interfaces still widely in use).

The older interfaces can probably be deprecated over time. I am not
sure how well GNOME 1.x components will work with GNOME 2.x clients or
vice versa in any case; certainly the in-process case won't work at
all.

 - Maciej