Re: RSS/RDF Aggregator

[Helge Hess]

ibotty wrote:
> i was very keen on implementing a vfs (virtual filesystem in desktop- , not
> in kernel context) in gnustep, but was ...ehem.. discouraged by the
> 'community'.

Yup, seems to be very common in GNUstep attitude in GNUstep "agree on 
nothing, do your own". At least my impression, no offense intendend.

Anyway, I *would* like to see a VFS for Objective-C (not just GNUstep, 
but also MacOSX). That user-level VFS makes sense is *very* well shown 
by Gnome and KDE and that Kernel-level VFS doesn't make sense at all is 
very well shown by MacOSX (say: FTP + WebDAV filesystems).

But on the other side VFS is hard to get right. I would really prefer to 
use GNOME and/or KDE VFS instead of starting a new, own one.
There is a nice paper on Nautilus floating in the net on VFS and some 
issues with that (don't have the URL handy).

> as soon as someone questions one single aspect of openstep (the api), [s]he
> is flamed by a large group of old steppers.

Well, IMHO the real problem is not that "old steppers" as you put it. I 
consider myself an "old stepper". Yet, even this small group is *very* 
diverse and everyone seems to have a different opinion on what GNUstep 
should look like or be or ...

> anyway. if there is interest in a vfs, i would be glad to provide a starting
> point. (i have the interfaces and a sample file: and imap: implementation.)

OGo also contains a NSFileManager subclass for IMAP4 and LDAP. But it 
only implements synchronous API which is OK for web apps/middleware but 
insufficient for desktop apps.

regards,
  Helge