On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:25:17 +0100 Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote: > Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 13:54 +0000, Neil Williams a écrit : > > GnomeVFS is used by GNOME but it does not require GNOME itself. It > > isn't a "part of GNOME" > > Erm, GnomeVFS is a key part of the GNOME platform. It isn't part of GNOME in the same way as libgnomeui or nautilus - it can easily be used by packages that have no GNOME dependencies. It is very useful that packages can use GnomeVFS with GTK+ without gnomecanvas, libgnomeui and the rest of GNOME. > > and in some ways it could be called GVFS to > > indicate a relationship with libglib2.0-0 (used by all GNOME libraries > > and lots of none-GNOME ones). > > GVFS is a different project, which is eventually going to replace > GnomeVFS, but with a different API. Sounds useful - I look forward to migrating my upstream projects to it if it is similarly free of other GNOME dependencies. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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