On 3 July 2010 08:49, Kristopher Ives <[email protected]> wrote: > I would be willing to add remote file system with GIO in a PPA version of > meld. My employer requires this feature.
This would be fantastic. I haven't spent a whole lot of time thinking about this, so I'm uncertain what can be done, and how easily. Meld essentially consists of three, largely disjoint views: file comparison, folder comparison, and VC view. - File comparison should be the easiest to port. It has relatively little file handling, and what is there is fairly well contained. However, we lose Python's universal newline support, and would have to make sure that the replacement code deals appropriately. - Directory comparison is more involved in terms of the file/directory handling functionality exercised. I haven't even started to look at what would be required here. - In VC view, while the actual file handling should be easy, most operations are carried out through external command-line VC tools. I'm guessing that for these tools, we'll need to mount the filesystems through GIO and pass the tools a local path. Also, Meld is developed under git (and speaking only for myself, on Fedora), so something like a gitorious/github repo would be more useful than a PPA... but that's up to you. cheers, Kai _______________________________________________ meld-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/meld-list
