On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:15:44 -0300, hernux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You may be right, this way may be safer, but the cost is too high..
Please remember Thunar is in development stage - Benny is working on maybe 20
different parts of thunar and does a great job at it too - but he's not (insert
favorite superhero) either, and some code components will get a lower priority.
> In the other hand, I can't find any reason why cp would be safer than
> mv... they work just the same.. the only difference is that mv is not
> really coping, and that de original file is not anymore at the end...
> so.. if you want to avoid overriding, in both cases you need the -i
> param... and you can always check the existence of files to be
> overwritten before calling mv.
>
> I haven't seen the code, but I guess that he is not calling system cp/mv
> commands.. so, implementation may be different from what I said before..
Calling a shell command to do mv/cp from a C program is kind of awkward, and
often a bad thing - you have no idea what is happening while a copy is
progressing for instance. In any case a proper implementation in C is not as
simple as you think, which is why the current code is 'as is'.
> but any case.. I think that if the problem with move is the safety, then
> the rename function should be changed, cause, after all, renaming and
> moving are the same.. :-)
>
> Any way, Benedikt already said that "this will be fixed before the
> release", so, I think that he is saying that its not a feature to copy
> instead of moving.
Copy+Delete is a safe (and quick to write) way to implement "move" for now, it
will be replaced later with more sophisticated code, because it's the right
thing. For now Thunar is a moving target that might not be able to compile or
run at any point, and can break your system. Such is life for a alpha/beta
project like Thunar.
Also, Please quote at the top, not at the bottom - it is unclear what/who you
are replying too.
Auke
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