Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

Tonnerre
2004-09-06T07:52:57Z

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Salut,

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:50:31PM +0200, Spam wrote:
> Their libraries are huge and memory hogging which so many Linux
> users just do not like.

This is rather a fud argument: both the gnome VFS code and the
KIOserver/KIOslave code aren't really large. You don't want to use
them for a busybox/tinylogin system, however.

> What if a user doesn't want KDE or Gnome? Would all files created
> with either be broken?

The files still work well, just that you can't access them over the
old fancy URL schemes.

> I doubt that something like file streams and meta-data can
> successfully be implemented purely in user-space and get the same
> support (ie be used by many programs) if this change doesn't come
> from the kernel. I just do not see it happen.

Actually, practical discordianism. If you develop a common API,
there'll always be people disagreeing.

GTK+ with all its features is just cool. Desktop warping is a really
nice thing. But there are people out there who don't want to use
it. They use QT, or even plain old Athena Widgets. So what? Will we be
implementing the X toolkits into the kernel?

In case of marketing it's up to the distributions to provide something
concise so everyone can use their programs through a coherent
namespace. (I.e. port all the apps they ship to gnome-vfs or kio).

Tonnerre

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