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

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 18Sep2001 07:46PM (+0100), Sander Vesik wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> 
> > On 18Sep2001 03:14PM (+0100), Sander Vesik wrote:
> > > On 18 Sep 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Unknown or needs fixing, I will be working on these:
> > > > 
> > > >   gconf  
> > > >   gnome-http
> > > 
> > > Does something actually use - or will be using gnome-http in gnome-2.0? 
> > > 
> > 
> > Various things use it, including a couple of applets in
> > gnome-applets. However, gnome-http has a very low-level and not so
> > well integrated API. My suggestion would be to drop it from the
> > official platform, but still include it in the release as a
> > non-platform library.
> > 
> 
> Oh, yes, how could I possibly forget these. All the nice applets that want
> you to set 'http_proxy' in .login for them to work. 
> 

It seems OK to me to remove it from the release entirely if everything
now using it can be ported to something else (preferably something
that supports gnome-wide proxy settings).

Otherwise, I would like to see it moved to the same sort of
internal-use status as eel, librsvg, gal, etc.

Does anyone here think we should continue to support gnome-http as a
full-fledged, committed platform library for GNOME 2.0?

Regards,

Maciej