Re: Proposed: libgnetwork

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 13:49, Christian Neumair wrote:
> 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?
> 
libgnetwork so far only includes basic networking stuff, like sockets,
DNS, etc. Soup provides a full HTTP implementation, which is why I think
they could be merged into one library.

cheers