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Bug 71589 - Gnome-vfs support for AVFS requested
Gnome-vfs support for AVFS requested
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Module: (other)
1.0.4
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-02-15 13:40 UTC by W. Michael Petullo
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description W. Michael Petullo 2002-02-15 13:40:03 UTC 
Currently, GNOME has no support built in for Miklos Szeredi's fantastic
AVFS code.  From the AVFS homepage (http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/avfs/),
AVFS is:

a system, which enables all programs to look inside gzip, tar, zip, etc.
files or view remote (ftp, http, dav, etc.) files, without recompiling the
programs.

AVFS has the huge advantage over mc of allowing any program (cd, ls, etc.)
to look into different types of files.  This is a very UNIXy solution.

A gnome-vfs module could be written to take advantage of AVFS, thus sharing
code and functionality with both GNOME and the command line.
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2003-02-25 11:26:27 UTC 
This is double usage with gnome-vfs already, it's very hackish (the
LD_PRELOAD stuff), and is GPL (gnome-vfs is LGPL).