Re: Gnome-VFS depending on bonobo

[Magnus Bergman <magnus bergman observer net>]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:54:23 +0100
Leen Toelen <leen toelen cropdesign com> wrote:

> 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

Yes, I am aware of this project but haven't tried it yet. The thing is
that I want it work in IRIX too. And I don't have enough knowledge of
IRIX to port it either. =(

To my knowledge Gnome-VFS is the most portable VFS implementation,
because it is implemented at such a high level.