Re: GNOME 2.0 Platform Alpha Deadline - Sep 26, 2001

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Sander Vesik wrote:

> On 18 Sep 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
>
> > Unknown or needs fixing, I will be working on these:
> >
> >  gconf  
> >  gnome-http
>
> Does something actually use - or will be using gnome-http in gnome-2.0? 
>
> [snip]


Nothing uses it afaik, but for some operations it is much easier to use 
than gnome-vfs. I can tell because I ported uf-view (the comic viewer ;) 
from gnome-http/ghttp to gnome-vfs.

If gnome-http is in the platform, I reckon it will be used. Maybe adding 
 a couple of convenience APIs with the same semantics as the gnome-http 
ones (I don't remember which APIs exactly, I can look it up though) 
would be enough to ditch gnome-http.

Most people that want http will use gnome-vfs or an external library 
like neon (when gnome-vfs doesn't provide enough features) anyway.

Cheers