Re: [Java-gnome-developer] gnomevfs bindings

[dan <dan...@gm...>]

	So i created 4 classes, and later realized 2 of them were already in
the gnome cvs.  This leaves two classes Mime and MimeApplication that
don't seem to yet be present in the bindings.
	I am playing around with creating a java-based desktop search similar
to Beagle. So far it only supports text and openoffice files so it's not
that exciting. (It also still re-indexes every time the program is
launched) The Mime binding I have created successfully determine mime
types and launch the appropriate application.  This means, although I
wrapped most of the mime functions present in the C libraries, I only
use a few methods from these classes in my app.  I don't know whether
the rest of the Mime functions i wrapped work correctly.
	I have joined the java-hackers list and will start to follow what goes
on there.  I also will try to test the rest of my class methods before i
consider a submission.

thanks,
Dan

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:47 +1000, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> 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
>