Re: moving eel-vfs-extensions to gnome-vfs

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 17:37, snickell stanford edu wrote:
> A good integration of many of these functions (there are some others
> which are very useful such as the read_entire_file functions, and things
> like that) with GnomeVFS would be a worthwhile task

	Agreed; very much so.

	One of the things that needs further discussion - since it was just
whacked in there, and is a hack currently; is the 'has_capabilities' API
for:

typedef enum {
	EEL_VFS_CAPABILITY_SAFE_TO_EXECUTE,
	EEL_VFS_CAPABILITY_IS_REMOTE_AND_SLOW /* link not copy */
} EelVfsCapability;

gboolean eel_vfs_has_capability (const char      *text_uri,
                                 EelVfsCapability capability);

	Methods;

	Inasmuch that (perhaps) it'd be nice to have more API to allow the user
to customise the capabilities - since they are essentially inscrutible
at the OS level; it seems to me to merit some detailed discussion,
preferably in a quick GEP format ;-)

	Regards,

		Michael.

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