Re: GObject-based streams redux

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 03:03:50AM +0400, Mikhail Zabaluev wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've stumbled upon another GLib-based project that reinvents
> polymorphic I/O (namely, regular sockets and TLS) as several
> others do (in particular, Gnome-VFS happens to have implemented
> TLS too). This once again hints at a gaping hole in the
> GTK/GNOME APIs: a truly extensible data stream framework
> low on the dependency stack.
> These mailing lists have seen a heated discussion on this
> several months ago:
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devel-list/2003-February/msg00029.html
> 
> Did the Wise Ones converge on some chunk of useful code, taking off
> from that?

libgsf has continued to mature and is now lgpl and used in several
applications.  It's interfaces are all syncronous right now, but
adding some async api would be useful.