Re: review of the Storage interface

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>]

> > I don't like to freeze the current API because I think it is incomplete.
> 
> Lots of things in Bonobo could be even better than they are.

Yeah, but these changes affect no existing applications and would
allow for a good infrastructure to be put in place.

> 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).

We are talking about Storages, not Streams.

> Do you think that all the changes you suggested are important enough
> that we should delay shipping GNOME 1.4 for an unknown but possibly
> quite long length of time to get them in, and even then risk shipping
> a buggier GNOME 1.4? Are they also worth delaying GNOME 2.0, the
> long-awaited and long-delayed development platform update, since many
> people will not start working on GNOME 2.0 in earnest until GNOME 1.4
> has shipped?

Yes.

Miguel.