Re: [gnet-dev] Dropping support for GLib-1.2

[Hubert Sokołowski <h sokolowski wsisiz edu pl>]

Hi!

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:00:22 +0000
Tim Müller <t i m zen co uk> wrote:

> 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? 

I think this is a good idea.

hs