On 8 Dec 2003, Ted Gould wrote:
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 16:28, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Anyway, with WebDAV set up, you can use the repository using a file manager like File Explorer (on Windows), or mounted as a file system (on Linux). Some applications such as Illustrator, understand WebDAV directly, and I understand they can load-from and save-to the remote repository directly. One could imagine that having an active WebDAV repository would be ample motivation to get similar support built into Inkscape... ;-)
Wow, that subject line is getting large. My subject line is bigger than your subject line (sorry).
Anyway, the WebDAV support would be something that we'd get for free if we supported GNOME-VFS. I'd like to do that sometime, is there any issues with using GNOME-VFS on Windows or Mac OS X? It would be nicer if we could go to GNOME-VFS exclusively.
--Ted
That looks pretty interesting, especially given that our file.c is in desperate need of an overhaul already. It looks like GNOME-VFS promises a number of useful features beyond WebDAV such as monitoring files for changes, accessing files within tarball archives, etc.
Some questions we'd want to get answered before deciding to go this way: How bad is the dependency situation for this (we have been tending to avoid GNOME libs due to dep issues)? What version of the lib is most widespread? Has its API been stable for a long enough period of time? Does it work on Win32 and OSX?
I've added mention of it to our proposed features page in Wiki.
Bryce