Re: Few questions on gnome-vfs

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 09:13, Quentin Mathé wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Few questions…
> 
> I plan to use gnome-vfs as a VFS backend in a GNUstep based desktop 
> environment. Well to do that, I would like to get rid of the libbonobo 
> dependency which induces many extra dependencies, and has no utility in 
> my case. I have seen that the gnome-vfs daemon is where libbonobo is 
> essentially used, but I don't understand what this daemon is useful for 
> and what I will lost if I remove it, I haven't been able to find any 
> documentation on it… ?

Its used by some methods such as smb to share connections between
processes and to get a known environment so that it can use things like
the glib mainloop. It is also where the gnome-vfs volume handling is
done so that not every process needs to handle this.

In the future we're likely to use it even more.

> Have you any other advices to help me to reduce gnome-vfs dependencies, 
> especially libbonobo. My goal is to limit the dependencies to GLib, 
> HAL, D-BUS and some extra librairies which can be tolerated because of 
> their small size.

Well, appart from the vfs monikers, bonobo/orbit isn't really exposed in
the API, so it could be replaced. However, that is a fair amount of
work, and until we decide that gnome can depend on e.g. dbus, we're not
gonna replace the use of ORBit for gnome-vfs daemon communication in the
official gnome-vfs releases.

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