Havoc Pennington wrote: >On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 07:44 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote: > > >>On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:37 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: >> >> >>>what about libsoup/network library? Wouldn't it also make sense to move >>>it to a libgnet in glib? >>> >>> >>I'm also for this, right now we are using multiple networking libraries >>and we fix the same bugs in multiple places. I think its odd as a >>platform we have no "official" way to great an http/network connection >>(yes libsoup is in the platform for evolution, but for instance >>gnome-vfs uses neon). >> >> >> > >Shouldn't http be in a unified library with other IO? (i.e. we'd want to >look at the whole of gnome-vfs functionality perhaps) > > HTTP is used in enough situations which don't follow an "IO stream" like model that it makes sense to have such an API.
For example, consider SOAP and XML-RPC: layering them over an IO stream-like API might work but you probably wouldn't want to, because the abstractions leak. James. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
