Subject: Re: Commit: some GnomeVFS support
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 12:11:02 CST
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:06:55PM -0500, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>
> > >This is a really cool feature! Now we can download a HTML/abw/rtf/doc...
> > >etc file straight into abiword and save it right back again.
> >
> > Assuming that your HTTP server has PUT support, then yeah :) Doing the
> > exporters was relatively easy and clean - not too many #ifdef's. The
> > importers will be a bitch though. Why? Well, it means porting Expat,
> > LixXML2, Libole2, and Psiconv to use VFS besides our text-based importers.
> >
>
> Sigh ... what a shame all that work has to be done such that
> each and every application has to be modified. Of course the
> support is already there for the QNX applications using the
> ftp/http/whatever filesystem =;-) (score one for QNX!).
>
> I haven't looked at it but it would seem that the GnomveVFS
> is rather a pain to use. Why didn't they just make a normal
> module that plugs into the normal linux VFS layer like the
> Alex ftp filesytem? This way applications could just use
> the standard open/read/write methods.
Allow me to plug the hurd at this point (even though I don't use it).
It allows you to set up your system so that
/ftp/ftp.abisource.com/my/file/on/abi points to your file, and the app
using it is unable to tell that it is far away. And this sort of file
system can be created for any transfer method.
Fun, eh?
sam th
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