> Less code to maintain and less interface complexity is always a good thing.
Not only that, but this also means that any app that embeds xulrunner as currently shipped by linux distros has to be a GNOME App, that meaning that they need to link and use deprecated libraries.
For example, the browser in Sugar has to do this workaround:
I lost several hours debugging this issue and I hope we can agree in that Gnome-vfs usage in mozilla is very inconvenient for embedders, specially in platforms with low resources.
(In reply to comment #26)
> (In reply to comment #24)
> Plus, IIRC, doesn't OLPC only ship with GIO and not gnome-vfs?
Yup, we had to branch the fedora packages in order to give up on this dependency.
http:// koji.fedoraproj ect.org/ koji/buildinfo? buildID= 65584
> Less code to maintain and less interface complexity is always a good thing.
Not only that, but this also means that any app that embeds xulrunner as currently shipped by linux distros has to be a GNOME App, that meaning that they need to link and use deprecated libraries.
For example, the browser in Sugar has to do this workaround:
http:// git.sugarlabs. org/projects/ browse/ repos/mainline/ commits/ c19e24ebe86bb1b e38b9ff03fa2557 248ebdf6b8
I lost several hours debugging this issue and I hope we can agree in that Gnome-vfs usage in mozilla is very inconvenient for embedders, specially in platforms with low resources.