On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 13:14, Danilo Segan wrote: > Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes: > > > > The main reason I wrote this code, and why I'm proposing it for 2.6 is > > that I need it in order to make the authentication mechanism and > > process authentication sharing in gnome-vfs work in a sane way. > > > > Since this is not going to go in platform for 2.6 (as you say), I > wonder what's the general guideline for dependencies of platform > libraries (like gnome-vfs, libgnomeui, etc.). > > It seems to me that this would introduce a dependency of developer > platform on the desktop tools — is this not strange? ;) > I don't think that really matters - the real point of the platform-desktop split is to indicate which modules are rock-solid API/ABI stable, not to dictate dependencies. I'd be interested in the other points danilo made, namely what its user-visible name should be and whether it can interoperate with mozilla/gre, but this is really cool stuff. From the specification sent to the list it's got my vote, of course I'll have to try the implementation first :-) (AES! Yay! Ahem.) -- Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>
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