[gnet-dev] Dropping support for GLib-1.2

[Tim Müller <t i m zen co uk>]

Hi,

I'd like to drop GNet support for GLib-1.2 and up the GLib requirement to 
GLib-2.4 (not 2.6 because transition to 2.6 is a bit tricky on windows due to 
the new filename encoding / stdio wrapper stuff).

The primary reason for this is that I would like to add support for punycode 
(RFC 3492) and international domain names (IDN) at some point, and for that 
the GLib 2.x unicode stuff would come in handy.

In any case, I don't really think it makes much sense to support a GLib 
version that has been unmaintained for at least five years and that is hardly 
in use any more. 

Not to mention that 2.x has had a lot of useful API additions since 1.2 and 
probably a bunch of fixes for io channels and other things as well.

Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? 

Cheers
 -Tim