[Portland] PortlandVFSProposal

[Alex Graveley]

It wouldn't be such a big deal, really.  Wrapping C++ in C would provide 
a stable interface, no matter of C++ ABI breakage.

The impetus would remain on the distribution to ensure the installed C 
wrapper links correctly with the C++ library it is wrapping, but users 
of the C wrapper would not be effected.

-Alex

Dan Kegel wrote:
> 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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