Re: gnome-vfs bonobo change - HEADS UP

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 16:07, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> I just commited a change that moved some of the functions in libgnomevfs
> to libbonobo. This is a binary compatible change, since all previously
> built applications using gnome-vfs also link to libbonobo (due to
> gnome-vfs linking to it). 

But this does have a small impact on components that use libbonobo and
not gnome-vfs, such as the AT-SPI stack.  Why do those gnomevfs APIs
need to be there?

Bill

> 
> The main functions are gnome_vfs_mime_get_default_component and
> gnome_vfs_mime_get_all_components, and they are basically only used by
> evolution at this point. The declaration of the functions are still in
> the gnome-vfs headers, but they are also availible as
> bonobo_activation_get_default_component_for_mime_type and
> bonobo_activation_get_all_components_for_mime_type if you don't want to
> force your bonobo application to use gnome-vfs.
> 
> There is one minor API issue with this change. The gnome-vfs header used
> to include <bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-server-info.h>, but it
> doesn't do this by default anymore (to avoid a build requirement for
> gnome-vfs). Applications using these APIs also use bonobo calls
> directly, so its likely that they already include this themselves (evo
> does). If they don't they have to either add this include or define
> GNOME_VFS_INCLUDE_BONOBO to make the gnome-vfs header do it.
> 
> This minor problem is unfortunate, but I think its very unlikely to
> cause any real issues, and its IMHO well worth the advantages of being
> able to put gnome-vfs on a sane position in the gnome platform stack.
> 
> Oh, and another thing. The gnome-vfs monikers have been split out into a
> separate module, "gnome-vfs-monikers". We need to add that to the
> platform to keep backwards compatibility.
> 
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