Re: New module proposal: gnome-user-share

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 15:16 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 23 octobre 2008 à 17:02 +0200, Frederic Peters a écrit :
> > A point Patryk touched is that generic distributions will provide
> > Apache packages configured to run at startup, so it is not just a
> > matter of binary size.
> > 
> > What do distributors think?
> 
> I think we could split the web server package in two. One package would
> contain the binary, that would be available for things like
> gnome-user-share. The other would contain the system-wide configuration
> and the service.
> 
> I also think that Apache is a bad choice. If you need a good web server
> with DAV support, please think of lighttpd instead, or - much better -
> of a libsoup-based implementation.

Also note that whatever solution is chosen, this needs to be possible:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=529852
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519577

Both of those would be possible with httpd, just not currently
implemented.

Cheers