Alexander Larsson

After some discussion with Michael Meeks about yesterdays post we decided to move the problematic gnome-vfs functions to libbonobo, so that we can totally avoid bonobo in gnome-vfs. This is ok, since these functions are useless unless you use bonobo yourself, so you’ll be linking to libbonobo if you use them. In fact all old apps are guaranteed to do this since gnome-vfs pulled in libbonobo.

So, what happens is that the function declarations are in the gnome-vfs headers, but the actual implementation is in libbonobo. This means we can now push gnome-vfs much lower in the gnome build stack. It now only depends on glib, dbus, gconf and libxml.

There is only one minor issue. Since we don’t want gnome-vfs to depend on bonobo I had to remove a bonobo include from the gnome-vfs headers. Its likely that apps that use these functions already include this header, but if they don’t they can just add that include, or define GNOME_VFS_INCLUDE_BONOBO to make gnome-vfs include it. The only application in Gnome that uses these functions is evolution, and it didn’t need any modification to keep building.

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