[gollem] Re: Homedir and rootdir parameters (Patch)

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Jeroen Huinink <j.huinink at wanadoo.nl>:

> The reason why I implemented it in Gollem was that this works with the
> current implementations of the VFS drivers. As I see/saw it Gollem is an
> additional layer over the VFS drivers. I think somebody spoke about
> gollem backend parameters and vfs backend parameters as being seperate. I
> thought that if we couldn't iron out the differences in the VFS layer we 
> might as well try to do it in the layer on top of VFS, ie Gollem. I was 
> afraid to touch the VFS drivers since I'm not sure where they are used 
> elsewhere and what I would break. This change gives me the functionality 
> that I want where I want it.

Okay, I can buy this. I've committed your patch; thanks!

> I know the question has been asked before and I get the feeling that you
> must be terribly busy with all the good work that you do. But some design
> documentation or directional statement where you want to take certain
> developments would help guys like me. I want to pitch in some work when I
> have some time left to give something back to the Horde community. I try 
> to keep up with the various mailing lists and search through the archives
> before I try to do something, but a lot of the ideas that must live
> within the core team are not on the list or in any documentation.

Well, I'm trying to get more of it out there, but it's happening very
slowly. I'll do what I can; direct questions about specific things I do try
to answer.

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck at horde.org>
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