A GIO transport

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 09:34 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Mattias Eriksson wrote:
> > Here is a first attempt att creating a gio transport for bzr. The reason
> > I wrote this is that I'd lite to store a bzr repo on my Apple
> > TimeCapsule that only provides afp and smb file access. So by using gio
> > as a transport it should be possible to use all protocols supported by
> > the gnome gio library (currently ssh/sftp, ftp, dav, smb, obex I think),
> > but I have only tested it with smb and ssh. Note that this is not a
> > merge request since I think there are still some work to do.
> >
> 
> I haven't looked closely, but you might consider turning this into a
> 'bzr-gio' plugin, similar to 'bzr-webdav'. Basically, a plugin should be
> able to provide all the bits necessary to connect via this new mechanism.
> 
> bzr-webdav might be a good plugin to take inspiration from.
> 
> The big advantage is that then anyone who wants this support can just
> install your plugin, rather than having to get a patched version of bzr.
Alternatively you're welcome to integrate it into bzr-gtk, which already
provides glue for a lot of GNOME technologies.

Cheers,

Jelmer