Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 07:44 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:37 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
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>>>what about libsoup/network library? Wouldn't it also make sense to move
>>>it to a libgnet in glib?
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>>I'm also for this, right now we are using multiple networking libraries
>>and we fix the same bugs in multiple places.  I think its odd as a
>>platform we have no "official" way to great an http/network connection
>>(yes libsoup is in the platform for evolution, but for instance
>>gnome-vfs uses neon).
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>Shouldn't http be in a unified library with other IO? (i.e. we'd want to
>look at the whole of gnome-vfs functionality perhaps)
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HTTP is used in enough situations which don't follow an "IO stream" like
model that it makes sense to have such an API.

For example, consider SOAP and XML-RPC: layering them over an IO
stream-like API might work but you probably wouldn't want to, because
the abstractions leak.

James.