Re: Evolution Data Server and libsoup

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

Le lun 08/12/2003 à 04:26, JP Rosevear a écrit :
> On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 22:16, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="JP Rosevear">
> > 
> > > EDS is currently requiring libsoup (HEAD).  Currently we use it for the
> > > groupwise backend.  We feel this is ok since the exchange connector, the
> > > sunone work, open groupware and (soon) the webcal backend all use libsoup,
> > > so its fairly common when writing backends.
> > 
> > Is libsoup in a state now that it can be used elsewhere in the desktop
> > and/or platform [1] stack?
> 
> Dan and Joe are the real experts, but basically "yes".  Dan and Joe have
> spent a bunch of time making it work properly and Rodrigo has added back
> some basic SOAP stuff.  It uses GNU TLS for ssl stuff and there is no
> longer an out of proc ssl proxy.

Hmm, it seems it has some duplications with libgnetwork or am I totally
wrong ?

Is there any hope to get all those libs merged in a one-to-rule-them-all
library ?

/me really don't want to see the gal/eel/whatever new library syndrom :)

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>
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