On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 11:15 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The reason for FUSE (specifically via the new Gnome replacement for the
> > old, unloved, GnomeVFS) is to enable better interoperability with
> > non-Sugar applications (for example, when we are able to do versioning),
>
> And yet, at the exact point we start using FUSE we get in trouble with
> portability for Sugar apps.
Sugar apps have datastore dependencies in the first place, whether on
the current DS interface or a FUSE based one. So it doesn't change the
situation there; apps talk to sugar, which talk to the DS, whether
implemented via olpcfs and Fuse or not.
>
> Can we shift the behaviour we want to put in the FUSE layer into a
> Sugar-level library that just uses POSIX underneath?
>
That's what olpcfs is doing: it exploits the POSIX interface as much as
possible, and if you read Scott's document (as I was today), you'll see
that....
- Jim
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Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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