Re: [Java-gnome-developer] gnomevfs bindings

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Sat, 2005-23-07 at 19:23 -0400, dan wrote:
> I have created several classes allowing access to the mime
> functionality in gnomevfs.

Excellent!

>   If java-gnome intends to wrap gnomevfs i
> will be happy to submit them. 

Well, first things first - you should probably join the
jav...@li... mailing list and submit your
code there.

>  I have never submitted code to a large
> project such as this one before, so if there is interest in these
> classes, could somebody give me some pointers on the procedure for
> submitting code.

Pretty much anyone with CVS access can commit the code. Since this is
off the beaten path a bit, you'll probably have to go a bit extra to get
someone to look at your code. At the end of the day, we're all
volunteers, so whatever you can do to make it easier for someone to
review your code will help your cause.

I would suggest as well that if you have a tiny little app or example
case that shows the bindings in use and/or the new/changed/fixed
functionality you are coding it would really help. I could look at your
code and go "um, yup, it compiles" but as I don't really know anything
about libgnomevfs it's hard for me to say whether or not your code does
the right thing. That's ok - I'm not the expert there - but *someone*
has to be able to say "yeah, it's cool"

As for how to submit, you can either send along a patch (see `cvs diff`,
`patch` etc) or alternately copies of the complete code files (such that
someone could drop them in to a checkout of libgnomevfs-java [1] and do
the `cvs diff` themselves).

AfC
Sydney

[1]: which I think should disappear and just be a part of libgnome-java

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