[Portland] PortlandVFSProposal

[Dan Kegel]

On 1/10/06, Philip Van Hoof <spam at pvanhoof.be> wrote:
> > Do you think it would make sense to rewrite KIO in C and to wrap a
> > synchronous and async API around the slave protocol (that it can serve
> > both the KIO::Jobs and the Gnome-VFS API.
>
> Rather than letting it serve Gnome-VFS, I think it would be better to
> have a KIO that doesn't depend on the entire Qt toolkit, and have
> Glib-style wrapper bindings for it.

If you wanted to offer KIO services to Gnome apps,
you'd pretty much have to rewrite in C; otherwise
any Gnome app using them would be sucked right
into the C++ ABI hell...
- Dan

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