Re: Announcing gnomevfs-mount 0.0.1 (very first version).
- From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome org>
- Cc: "gnome-vfs-list gnome org" <gnome-vfs-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Announcing gnomevfs-mount 0.0.1 (very first version).
- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 09:10:14 +0200
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 01:26 +0200, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 17:53 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 14:38 -0600, Sandino Flores Moreno wrote:
> > > Hello folks.
> > >
> > > Since I saw gmailfs (1), I wondered why gnome does not have a way to
> > > mount gnomevfs-uris on the linux filesystem.
> >
> > Gnome in general has to work on many unix versions. It can't depend on a
> > specific kernel.
>
> But we could use it in Linux so all applications will be able to access
> to remote locations and left the current code for unsupported platforms
> (and perhaps their developers could implement such support under their
> OS). As far as I know fuse is a library so you are not depending on the
> kernel directly.
Going fully to a FUSE-like approach would mean a huge redesign of how
the desktop handles things like this, and that would only work on linux.
Doing both is not gonna work very well.
> Users don't understand why they are not able to open files from remote
> locations on non GNOME applications. In fact, I don't know about any
> GNOME application that it's able to edit a remote file directly.
Well. We need to fix them then.
> > Also, i personally think mounting things like this can be problematic.
> > There will be many posix details that the mounted filesystem won't
> > comply with, that an application using the normal filesystem might
> > depend on.
>
> You are right, it's a problem, but IMHO those are called bugs, and bugs
> are fixable and those kind of bugs are easily fixable than, for
> instance, add gnome-vfs support in emacs or any piece of software that
> is able to open files.
The reason they don't follow posix semantics is that its not possible to
do so on non-posix backends.
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