Re: libproxy as external dependency

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 15:01 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le mardi 21 octobre 2008, à 10:30 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to propose libproxy (LGPL 2.1+;  
> > http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/) as a blessed external dependency for  
> > GNOME 2.26.  libproxy is currently used by vlc and neon and libsoup and  
> > webkit are considering adopting it.
> 
> The only argument I see against libproxy is "yet another library while
> we're trying to reduce the number of libraries" and people seemed to
> agree that this is actually not a real issue.

Personally, I'm less concerned with how many libraries we
happen to depend on to build Gnome than I am with how many
interfaces we're presenting to our third-party developers.

Ideally, I'd love to see a GLib-level networking library.
If that happened to use libproxy, wonderful.

But since we don't have the single point of entry right
now, exposing libproxy as a potential interface to our
developers seems like the reasonable thing to do.  That
is to say, we should only reduce the number of libraries
through unification, not through reduction of features.

--
Shaun