Re: Proposed: libgnetwork

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

On So, 2004-01-04 at 23:15 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 07:51, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > libgnetwork
> > -----------
> > 
> > Is it just me, or does nothing in the Desktop use this? gnome-network
> > doesn't. I don't think we should add a library module unless something uses
> > it. Not that libgnetwork isn't a good idea or anything, but... Hmm. ;-)
> > 
> gnome-network is going to use it as soon as time permits. Apart from
> that, there were some comments, back when libgnetwork was first
> proposed, from people wanting a networking library in the platform, to
> avoid the gnet/soup/mynetlib... usage everywhere in GNOME CVS.
> 
> I think libgnetwork is the best candidate for being that lib, since it
> uses a GObject-oriented approach. For 2.8, 2.10 or whatever, we should
> probably think about integrating soup and other interesting libs into
> libgnetwork.

Is there any chance that Evolution will be ported to libgnetwork?
Does this library have any disadvantages over libsoup?

regs,
 Chris