Re: [Tracker] Database access abstraction

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 16:48 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > well tracker has to support virtual uri which is not necessarily
> > supported by GIO so use of GFile is not really practical.
> >
> > Of course there are places where stuff is only file specific where use of gfile makes sense
>
> A GFile doesn't have to physically exist on disk.
> Can you give an example where a virtual URI can't be a GFile?

well say i use it to make a note thats stored only in tracker (and not
in a file)

the uri might be notes://mynote

will gfile allow abritrary URi schemse to be used?

jamie