Re: Proposed: libgnetwork

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

On Mo, 2004-01-05 at 14:06 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 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.
Will anybody take care of this? This would have to be done in a
relatively short timeframe, so we need somebody familiar with networking
and its pitfalls.
CCing libsoup maintainers.

regs,
 Chris