moving gnome-vfs MIME code into libgnome so libbonobo can use it

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Thursday, June 28, 2001, at 03:28  PM, Michael Meeks wrote:

>         All we need is the mime detection / sniffing code, but splitting
> that out is a pain - so it makes the most sense to have the code in
> libgnome. - That is my rational. It seems uncontentious enough to me.
Why not put the entire virtual file system in libgnome? What's the concept 
of libgnome? Perhaps if I understood libgnome better I could see more 
clearly that it should include MIME sniffing, for example, but not a 
virtual file system layer, for example.
Once we agree that MIME sniffing should be in libgnome, it is non-trivial 
to move it out of gnome-vfs since it shares utility functions with the 
rest of gnome-vfs, but perhaps we can at least get consensus on the fact 
that it should be moved first.
I understand that you want libbonobo to be as low-level as possible and 
want as few dependencies as possible. I don't yet understand how libgnome 
fits into this picture.
    -- Darin