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Re: kio-gio bridge
by Richard Moore on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @02:29

> Why is it overlapping? Parts of the functionality in KIO (particularly
> network transparent file-management like smb, ftp, sftp, webdav) would be
> delegated to GIO/GVFS. That's just putting the KIO interface on top of a
> shared implementation.

You seem to be saying instead of maintaining a single well tested code base, we'd now need to maintain two of them. One of which is unproven, and only covers part of the problem space. I don't see this as a winning argument.

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Re: kio-gio bridge
by Norbert on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @04:37

>> That's just putting the KIO interface on top of a
>> shared implementation.
>
> You seem to be saying instead of maintaining a single well tested code base,
> we'd now need to maintain two of them. One of which is unproven, and only covers
> part of the problem space. I don't see this as a winning argument.

First, i would always rate usability higher than maintainability. But i'm pretty sure that moving towards a shared implementation, even if it's only for the VFS parts of KIO, will in the long run reduce maintenance "cost" as well.

However, as things are evolutionary, lets just try with an optional plugin and see if users like it. It's far too early to discuss maintenance cost or whether GVFS should really replace certain parts of KIO by default.

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Re: kio-gio bridge
by SadEagle on Wednesday 23/Jan/2008, @07:57

Software development is 90% maintenance.

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