Re: [Banshee-List] code question

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

If someone wants to work on an unofficial plugin that supports setting
up the global process proxy settings, then that's fine with me as an
interim solution. One such plugin exists somewhere, at least in part,
but I don't know where.

The plugin should not need to modify core in any way.

--Aaron


On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 22:27 -0600, jae wrote:
> > My big point and objection is that *no* code should be written in
> > Banshee for proxy support. Nothing. At all.
> >
> > The code needs to be integrated at the framework level. Frameworks
> > should be able to cooperate in ways that make them not dependent on each
> > other. If you add the "read the GNOME proxy settings" in Banshee, you
> > need to add it to F-Spot and any other Mono application that does
> > network IO. Applications are not the place. At all.
> >
> > --Aaron
> >
> >   
> I totally agree with you on this. However, my question is how long will
> Banshee be held hostage by proxy problems that aren't its
> responsibility? There could be an interim solution that would allow us
> corporate types to get through proxies while the real solution is
> implemented further down the software stack. Unless of course the people
> frustrated by it are the same ones that control those areas. My 2c
> 
> Jae
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