Re: [gnome-network]libgnetwork API/ABI Stability

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> I just talked to rodrigo on IRC about this. The transfer manager is
> going to be a separate module and just have it's own library wrapper
> around it's IDL for now. I should have some time soon to write all of
> the necessary bits to put that in CVS. So, expect to see it there at
> some point this weekend. I just realized how little time is actually
> left, and will try to get a fairly complete architecture written this

Ok.

> weekend with a stable API/ABI. And having discovered some major issues
> in some of the vfs API calls, I see that we are going to have to use

Have you reported this as a bug? I try to help teuf where I can. What is 
the problem/bug?

> some code from downman anyway probably. But this is good since the way
> emphetamine currently does transfers expects that gnome-vfs actually
> works when it is supposed to, and it doesn't. Also, the way that you

emphetamine just uses the _xfer function, this is like copy.

> are doing it in downman seems to allow more flexibility, so that we
> can fake pipelining of downloads in some cases if we care to add that
> feature at some point.

Yes. This also allows for *resume* and speed limit.

Hope to see the code soon :)

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Manuel Clos
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