Re: Gnome-VFS depending on bonobo

[Leen Toelen <leen toelen cropdesign com>]

Magnus Bergman wrote:

> On 15 Mar 2004 10:50:51 +0100
> Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 17:01, Magnus Bergman wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I'm just wondering if there is a good reason for gnome-vfs to depend
> > > on bonobo and orbit. Gnome-vfs could be very usable in many
> > > non-desktop programs, like for example a web-server. But with it's
> > > current dependencies it kind of discourages such usage. Would it be
> > > much work to reduce the dependencies of the gnome-vfs core to,
> > > perhaps, only glib?
> > >      
> > Bonobo (not BonoboUI) and ORBit2 is used for the gnome-vfs daemon
> > communication, as well as for GConf.
> >    
>
> And by the way I am well aware that there is nothing desktop-specific
> about Bonobo. But the thing is many developers (server application
> developers not the least) consider Bonobo, ORBit and such to be
> unnecessary "gnome bloat" and therefore hesitate to make use of very
> handy packages like Gnome-VFS.
Maybe you should have a look at Fuse instead, which is a user mode 
filesystem for linux. This has no dependencies other than a working 
kernel :-)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf

Best regards,
Leen Toelen


confidentiality notice:
The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be the subject of 
legal professional privilege. It is intended for the authorized use of the individual 
or entity addressed. If the receiver or reader of this message is not the intended 
recipient,  you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or 
use of the contents of this message is prohibited. 
If this email is received in error, please accept our apologies, delete all copies 
from your system, and notify us at cropdesign cropdesign com