Re: review of the Storage interface

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Dietmar Maurer <dietmar maurer-it com> writes:

> Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> > However, it's not even true that we can make any of these changes
> > without affecting anything else. For instance, Nautilus has a server
> > that implements the Stream interface to use with Bonobo Controls and
> > Embeddables which we use to display content in Nautilus. We'd have to
> > make a lot of changes to that code to support all the things you want,
> > and it would be very difficult to test our changes, since no Bonobo
> > components out there use any of this functionality right now (since it
> > doesn't exist yet).
> 
> I think we should do only the necessary things now:
> 
>  - remove eos();

I can agree with removing eos since I can't find a bonobo component
out there that uses it.

>  - extend the directory_list data structure
> 

Likewise, this particular change does not seem too high-risk, if you
implement it soon.

> all other things can be delayed to the next release of bonobo, since they only
> add functionality.

Sounds good.
 

[...snip...]

> 
> But anyway - my primary interest is the interface itself and not the release
> date of GNOME.

Your interest is laudable. As one of the GNOME 1.4 release
coorinators, I have to represent the competing interests of the
release date, however.

I think we have a reasonable agreement on what changes to make,
assuming Michael agrees.

 - Maciej