On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:53 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote: > JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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). > > It sounds great to have a networking library on our platform, but I am > pretty confident that it shouldn't be part of glib or GTK+. Project > Ridley is primarily about getting widgets back into the widget library, > and making that library comprehensive.
We have an entire object/type system in glib, I don't think a simple network API is beyond the scope of glib. It doesn't need to be all of gnome-vfs, just a layer gnome-vfs and others can use. > We can start a larger conversation about what the platform needs, and > we're probably overdue for that. Sure. -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Novell, Inc. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
