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We had lots of issues to keep us busy in the last couple days, including fighting the GIL (no, not the Brazilian Culture Minister, but the nasty Global Interpreter Lock). Well, it's actually not bad, but jumping back and forth between the GTK mainloop and the GIL is not exactly fun.

Anyway, after spending quite some time on this, and learning more about C and Python bindings that in my wildest dreams, we finally got something working. It's actually insanely cool, because most of the nastyness of dealing with WebDAV and caching is being handled by RemoteResource, which is the core of Plone Desktop, so the code ended up being nice and clean.

So far, a good amount of operations are working. It's possible to create new files and directories, but not yet upload them. It's possible to remove files and directories, browse (obviously) and rename, and it looks very speedy compared to the default WebDAV method in Gnome VFS.

So, enough talking. Here's a screenshot to tease you. Nothing exceptionally different from the built-in WebDAV method so far, the real meat will come when we can pass extra info from the VFS to FileInfo, and access this extra info from the context menus and property pages. Then it will be quite easy to finish this and get it much closer to Plone Desktop on the Windows platform.

Don't expect too much progress too soon though. I'm working on this on my free time, which is not much these days. :)

BTW, this all started during PyConBrasil, which was by far the coolest Python-related event I've been to. The lectures were exceptionally high-level, and on the most incredible subjects. It's great to see we have such a cool community and that it's thriving so fast and furiously. Can't wait for Osvaldo's slides, which show a steady growth both in number of participants and discussions in the last 16 months. Also great was the pleasure to meet Gustavo Niemeyer. Check out his blog, he's also making a short summary of the conference. Sadly, I forgot to thank him for his various contributions to Python like DateUtil and the bzip2 module. Oh, well, next time I will buy him some wine-powered beer.