Re: Announcing GNOME Network Proxy Resolver

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le jeudi 26 octobre 2006, à 14:03, Elijah Newren a écrit :
> On 10/25/06, Alexey Rusakov <ktirf users sf net> wrote:
> > Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > >> GNOME Network Proxy Resolver provides proxy lookup with PAC support via
> > >> DBUS. This allows other programmes to support the "Automatic proxy
> > >> configuration" option from GNOME control centre's Network Preferences
> > >> without embedding a JavaScript interpreter just for this tiny feature.
> > >
> > > You rock!
> > >
> > > That feature was missing for ages in the control-center (and GNOME
> > > applications). This fixes a bunch of very old GNOME bugs like:
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123900
> > >
> > > Can we get this in 2.18? :)
> > I'm afraid - no, we can't :( The module proposal period is over. Although
> > this really rocks, and it's by no means useless.
> 
> Well, the deadline was extended as noted with Vuntz' email[1], but
> more importantly is perhaps addressing a side issue here that seems to
> not be well known.  If you look up the email explaining the module
> proposal rules[2], you find this snippet:
> 
>     "...A dependency can be proposed for inclusion AFTER the 2.15.1 release..."
> 
> i.e. after the "End of new (app) modules proposal period" listed on
> the schedule.  The reason for this little rule (and the parenthetical
> "(app)" on the schedule) was because we were thinking about the case
> of new small libraries created to help fix bugs in existing desktop
> modules.  If such modules were small and were written to fix problems
> in desktop apps, we thought it might be wise to allow them any time
> before feature/module freeze instead of just any time before 2.odd.1
> as with other modules.  As far as I can tell, it looks like the GNOME
> Network Proxy Resolver falls into this special case we wanted to
> allow, and thus should still be open for consideration.

So, hmm, just pinging: Christian, are you willing to propose this for
2.18, or do you think it's too early?

Vincent

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