gvfs for packaging

[Mark Ellis]

Hopefully something that will help anyone wanting to package synce-gvfs.

I've added a hack to make a self contained source package, explained in
the README. There's a script that will copy required files from the main
gvfs tree and fix the build system to allow a make dist, giving a
stand-alone package.

Not ideal, but it's the best I can think of until gvfs provides for 3rd
party backends. This is apparently planned, but I would guess not likely
to happen soon.

Mark

[Jonny Lamb]

Post by Mark Ellis
Hopefully something that will help anyone wanting to package synce-gvfs.
I've added a hack to make a self contained source package, explained in
the README. There's a script that will copy required files from the main
gvfs tree and fix the build system to allow a make dist, giving a
stand-alone package.
Not ideal, but it's the best I can think of until gvfs provides for 3rd
party backends. This is apparently planned, but I would guess not likely
to happen soon.

I don't plan to package synce-gvfs for Debian soon for this reason:

"The GNOME team has decided to delay the upload of nautilus 2.22 (and
several other similar packages) to unstable. GNOME 2.22 introduced
the new gvfs library, a replacement for the venerable gnome-vfs,
which is, while introducing several new features, not yet completely
regression-free. More complex file backends, such as smb, are still not
ready for mass-deployment."[0]

Although I could prepare a package for experimental, I'm not sure if
there's really that much point.

Thanks,

0. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/06/msg00000.html

[Mark Ellis]

Post by Jonny Lamb

Post by Mark Ellis
Hopefully something that will help anyone wanting to package synce-gvfs.
I've added a hack to make a self contained source package, explained in
the README. There's a script that will copy required files from the main
gvfs tree and fix the build system to allow a make dist, giving a
stand-alone package.
Not ideal, but it's the best I can think of until gvfs provides for 3rd
party backends. This is apparently planned, but I would guess not likely
to happen soon.

"The GNOME team has decided to delay the upload of nautilus 2.22 (and
several other similar packages) to unstable. GNOME 2.22 introduced
the new gvfs library, a replacement for the venerable gnome-vfs,
which is, while introducing several new features, not yet completely
regression-free. More complex file backends, such as smb, are still not
ready for mass-deployment."[0]
Although I could prepare a package for experimental, I'm not sure if
there's really that much point.

I can't fault Debian's reasoning, I think Ubuntu jumped the gun on this
one. It's a good piece of software, but not quite ready.

Mark

[Adam Williamson]

Post by Mark Ellis
Hopefully something that will help anyone wanting to package synce-gvfs.
I've added a hack to make a self contained source package, explained in
the README. There's a script that will copy required files from the main
gvfs tree and fix the build system to allow a make dist, giving a
stand-alone package.
Not ideal, but it's the best I can think of until gvfs provides for 3rd
party backends. This is apparently planned, but I would guess not likely
to happen soon.

Thanks for that, Mark. I'm currently working on synce-hal and WM2003
stuff for Mandriva, but once that's done, I'll package synce-gvfs. It's
not a major priority for me because frankly I just advise people to use
wm5torage :)