Re: webdav via tramp failures and error

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:

Hi Ken,

> Compiling from sources is no problem.  I just found
> <http://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/gnome.org/sources/gvfs/0.99/>.  What's
> the lowest version number of gvfs that I can use?  (The higher the
> version level of an app, the more likely it is it'll require libraries
> not already installed, leading to dependency failures and that to an
> unending chain of required upgrades to satisfy all the additional
> dependencies... ad nauseum.)

The Commentary section of tramp-gvfs.el says:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;; Access functions for the GVFS daemon from Tramp.  Tested with GVFS
;; 1.0.2 (Ubuntu 8.10, Gnome 2.24).  It has been reported also to run
;; with GVFS 0.2.5 (Ubuntu 8.04, Gnome 2.22), but there is an
;; incompatibility with the mount_info structure, which has been
;; worked around.

;; It has also been tested with GVFS 1.6.2 (Ubuntu 10.04, Gnome 2.30),
;; where the default_location has been added to mount_info (see
;; <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561998>.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I believe there is an incompatibility with the recent GVFS 1.14.0, but
this I must recheck.

> Thanks again.

Best regards, Michael.