Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] gio port

[John Daiker <daikerjohn gmail com>]

Are there any *obvious* differences that we should be seeing after 
applying this patch?  Should we run in --debug mode just for fun and see 
what turns up?

John Daiker


Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just committed a moderately sized patch that replaces gnome-vfs
> with GIO in Rhythmbox: 
>
> 112 files changed, 3392 insertions(+), 7435 deletions(-)
>
> This drops support for various old versions of various dependencies
> (libsoup 2.2, howl, ..) and means we require glib 2.16 and gstreamer
> 0.10.12; if you want to build rhythmbox from svn on a distribution more
> than six months old, you're sadly out of luck.
>
> Now the good news: lots of code is a bit more sensible, file and volume
> monitoring works better, podcast downloads can be resumed now, and with
> my confirmation bias goggles firmly in place, things seem to be a bit
> faster too.
>
> Not everything has been thoroughly tested, though.  There's some
> preliminary support for mounting drives and network shares as required.
> I haven't really tested network shares (sftp or smb) at all.  The basics
> all work, as far as I can tell.
>
> If you're going to test this and help us track down the bugs that have
> no doubt been introduced, please take a backup of your database
> (~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml) first - older versions will not read
> database files written by gio-enabled rhythmboxes.
>
> enjoy,
> -jonathan
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