re: gnome

[bratsche dfw net]

At the same time, GNOME is the only place we can reasonable expect to get
it installed. People writing GNOME applications don't want to have to
check the operating system in order to determine if they can mount an ftp
server. You can't reasonably expect every operating system that GNOME is
expected to eventually run on to implement VFS in their kernel. That's
just not sane.
If you want to be able to telnet into a machine running VFS and have
access to it, perhaps you should write a new shell program that will make
use of it.

Cody

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Todd Showalter wrote:

>     This strikes me as "if you have a hammer, everything tends to look
> like a nail".  gnome does not seem the right place to solve this problem
> to me.  If you want ftp wrapped in a filesystem, try to get it into the
> kernel of the OS you use.  If you want to be able to mount a tar file (or
> a gzipped tar file, for that matter) as a filesystem, try to get it into
> the kernel of the OS you use.
> 
>     The kernel is the place to solve this kind of thing.  I'm not running
> gnome when I telnet into one of my servers, but I might want to be able to
> use the above systems.  Filesystem wrapping like this should be available
> even when I'm not running in X (or what have you).  Restricting it to
> gnome is not desirable.
> 
> 							Todd.  
> 
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