Re: libsoup branched for 2.26

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Dan Winship wrote:
>> Plans for 2.28 are not nailed down, but are mostly being driven by
>> WebKit at this point (with bug reports, feature requests, and patches
>> coming from both the Epiphany and Midori developers). Features currently
>> in progress include better Content-Type sniffing (kov), caching (xan),
>> and Content-Encoding (ie, gzip) support (Company).
> 
> Are there any plans for IDN support for this cycle (bug #548287)?

Yes, hopefully all the GResolver stuff (IDN, better IPv6 support, using
libsoup without gthread) should get merged in. (I don't remember if the
next glib release is due before 2.28 or not, but if it's not, we can
still use a local copy of GResolver, libegg-style, for 2.28.)

-- Dan