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

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com> wrote:
> 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?

No, there are at least 2 features affected: open remote files indeed
and the help browser (help will fail showing with an error since our
websites are now https only). This last one was getting quite a lot of
report on the tracker and was very bad experience.
Anyway nowadays https is the standard for web access. Not supporting
this is not acceptable IMO.

Jehan

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