Re: [Gimp-developer] New GIMP configure warning/error

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <
alexandre prokoudine gmail com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:34 PM, Partha Bagchi wrote:
>
> > I am perplexed to see that we need glib-networking suddenly since my git
> > pull from a couple of days ago? Is there a reason to requiring glib
> > networking support?
>
> To quote from https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id=
> bb196607693b2a8fa95f033966506cbf3c377d81
>
> "Use a code test inspired by libsoup configure test. This is a hard
> dependency because HTTPS should not be considered an option anymore.
> Nowadays most websites will use HTTPS by default, HTTP gives SEO
> penalties and browsers are starting to display various security
> warnings on HTTP websites. Also the experience will be significantly
> degraded without SSL/TLS support since the help browser will fail to
> load the manual remotely, and opening various remote files on secure
> protocols will fail. Note: the test cannot be performed while
> cross-compiling. In this case, we will just display a warning for
> packagers to be at least well aware of this dependency."
>
> Alex
>
> Yes, I read the quote but am still perplexed. the only (?) place we need
http/https support is to load images from an URI? Is it not sufficient to
make that optional instead of introducing one more dependency?