google summer of code

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Alexandre Moreira wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:04 AM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> 
> Brian, about the libfusi thing: Is there any reason why it is better
> than the work being done on Gio and Gvfs ? I'm only asking it because
> GIO will be default with Glib 2.16, which should be ready soon. The
> Gtk+ File dialogs are going to use GIO, too. so it would be good for
> consistency.
> 
> But perhaps libfusi does something more than Gio that I'm not aware of.

As Yves-Alexis points out, Xfce 4.6 will only depend on gtk 2.10, not 2.16.

Also, Thunar already has its own VFS backend (thunar-vfs).  Now, 
clearly, gio/gvfs will be better maintained than thunar-vfs, and I 
believe it may already have more features (in support for different 
backends), but porting Thunar to gfvs would be a major undertaking. 
Personally I'd say that libfusi might be a reasonable baby step in the 
middle to get some of the network functionality that gvfs can support. 
All of this is up to Benny, of course.

	-brian