Re: [RFC] Simple file monitoring API for GLib

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 5/9/06, Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com> wrote:

> That's the thing - people will see that gnome-vfs has a file monitoring
> API, and that Glib has one as well, and they'll think "the Glib one is
> at a lower level, so it must be BETTER!".  And they'll start abusing it,
> they'll see that it doesn't scale, and blame us.

That is a valid concern.

> The *real* problem is that we haven't decided to bite the bullet and
> either completely remove gnome-vfs, or to put it below the GUI part of
> the GNOME stack.  GtkFileSystem is already a mess because we have to
> maintain two pretty complex implementations:  the Unix backend, and the
> gnome-vfs one.  A file monitor in Glib will create exactly the same
> problem.

While the root cause is the same, I don't think the situations are really
comparable. If you look at Emmanuele's code, it does little more than
wrap a GSource around the gnome-vfs file monitor api.

Matthisa