Re: GNOME 2.0 Platform Alpha Deadline - Sep 26, 2001

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 18Sep2001 09:20AM (-0500), Bill Gribble wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 09:14, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > Does something actually use - or will be using gnome-http in gnome-2.0? 
> 
> Gnucash uses it.  I don't know if that's enough, but it's there.  I
> can't see any alternative short of libwww, and for the most part
> gnome-http does what it's supposed to do with low hassle. 
> 
> This is an ignorant question, I'm sure (haven't paid too much attention
> to gnome-2.0 issues) but why isn't libgal on the gnome-2.0 list? 
> 

GAL is a non-API-committed library and contains GPL code, for both of
these reasons it is not suitable as a platform library.

We could include it as a non-platform library if anything in the core
release needs it.

Regards,

Maciej