On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 20:12 +0900, Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center
wrote:

> > I don't think any solution is really right at this time. Neither
> > solution is ideal, and we add hacks that are visible to the user (env
> > vars) that we have to keep supporting in the future, and hacks that
> > doesn't fully fix the issue. And all this is for something that is
> > scheduled for replacement.
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Now I agreed with your point and also I feel it's 
> quite difficult to fix this problem fully in the current nautilus and 
> gnome-vfs without gvfs.
> However my point is a slightly different from yours. I think gvfs is a new 
> feature and currently gnome-vfs has this bug. I completely agree gvfs will 
> resolve almost problems against gnome-vfs but e.g. there are no solutions 
> when I want any fixes in three months. I haven't thought to provide full 
> supports for samba of equal gvfs at the moment but I'm asked to fix the 
> critical problems with samba.
> If I think the previous version of GNOME, e.g. 2.6, it may be difficult to 
> use gvfs since backports something will be needed.
> But I understood it's not good for you to hack the visible env values because 
> those env values won't be used once gvfs is available.
> 
> I don't find which resolutions I should take.
> What do you think this kind of patches are applied by each vendors and the 
> vendors will maintain the patches by themselves until gvfs is available but 
> the patches are not integrated in nautilus/gnome-vfs head and/or branch? Are 
> there any concerns/suggestions in your side?

I think carrying a vendor patch for this seems like a good idea.

> When is the target to release gvfs?

The target is the next (major) release of glib. The exact date is
unknown, but a guess would be to see a stable release of it in 11 months
or so.


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