Re: [gnome-network]Transfer Manager (again!)

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Mar , 2003-10-14 at 18:34, Manuel Clos wrote:
> > Manuel Clos wrote:
> > To sum up, the transfer manager *can now resume* ftp and http uris. I 
> > will update downman cvs after I fix % reporting.
> What is wrong with percent complete reporting?

This is a problem in downman. Currently the % is not correctly 
calculated after you stop/start a transfer.

> > This is the next step. So I will send a proposition for:
> > 	- an interface for the clients
> This is no more than the interface to the daemon. The clients should be
> able to add transfers, stop transfers, remove transfers, pause and
> resume transfers and possible a few other things.

Ok, where is this interface? are you going to write the idl file? If 
not, I can do it.

> > 	- a list of functions that should go into libgnomenetwork to wrap the 
> > interface
> The list of functions that will go into the library for wrapping will be
> defined by what the API for clients to interact with the daemon is.
> There is no need to worry about this. It will be defined by other things
> and will come along as needed, and as the API is written and defined.

Well, I want to help, so having a list of library functions to implement 
will be nice.

> > 	- definition of the daemon structure (mostly downman)

Main Class, Tranfers Class, List Class, ... what do you have in mind?

> > 	- features that the daemon should have (mostly downman)
> I'm not sure what you really mean here.

Say, start, stop, restart, delete, queue, max simultaneous downloads, 
projects?, max connections to a server, max retries, ...

> > I also want to talk to epiphany developers to see if the prefer a plugin 
> > or just use the transfer manager.
> Well, if Epiphany's goal is to integrate with GNOME, they should be
> using the transfer manager. How they do that, is up to them. But if
> they want to integrate, they should integrate by default. IE, if it is
> a plug-in, it should be a part of the default build/install of epiphany.

Oh yes, but helping is a lot better than "mandatting". I talked with 
them, the best thing would be to replace the internal one. Of course we 
need to come with something *usable* (this is because I want to 
integrate downman), and do a patch to epiphany source so they can test 
it. I have looked at what and where needs done in epiphany, but I want 
to concentrate on getting the transfer manager ready first.

So I'm basically asking you for a plan, a timetable, what work needs 
doing (idl, api, features, ...) and how can we divide the work so that I 
can start working on it.

See you.

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Manuel Clos
llanero eresmas net
http://llanero.eresmas.net