[GNOME-India] [X-POST] GIO porting at foss.in/2008

["Arun Chaganty" <arunchaganty gmail com>]

Hey,
    There are still a couple of stragglers in the gnome-vfs to
GIO/GVFS [1] shift. Notably:

* A few rhythmbox plugins
* Minor tracts of Dasher [2] code
* Buzztard [3]
* Anjuta [4]

There are also parts of XULRunner, Inkscape. and WebkitGtk that
require porting. For those not aware of the shift, gnome-vfs, gio/GVFS
are api's to deal with file io and virtual filesystems (that's using
mounted partitions, streams, etc. as well as a wrapper over POSIX
functions). Gnome-vfs was deprecated because it was a sucky api, and
it had it's long overdue overhaul in GIO/GVFS.

To cut the story short, I wanted to register a GIO porting
"Workout"[5] (port-day) at foss.in/2008[6]. Anyone interested in
taking part?

[1] GVFS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVFS http://live.gnome.org/GioPort
[2] Dasher Alternative Text Entry: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
[3] Buzztard Music Studio: http://www.buzztard.org
[4] Anjuta C/C++ IDE : http://www.anjuta.org
[5] Workouts at foss.in/2008: http://foss.in/news/call-for-participation.html
[6] foss.in/2008: http://foss.in/


Cheers,
-- 
Arun Tejasvi Chaganty