On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 15:23 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 15:05 -0400, Dan Winship wrote: > >> So it's generally a good thing. The catch is that not many apps are > >> using it yet. But the author is planning to propose it as a blessed > >> dependency for GNOME 2.26 (and have it be used in gvfs and libsoup), and > >> if that happens then that will pretty much guarantee that other distros > >> have to ship it too, at which point it becomes easier for more apps to > >> decide to depend on it, and eventually we might just reach uniform proxy > >> setting nirvana. > > > > Most apps doing HTTP end up doing so via a library (I'd hope). So the > > next step would be getting support into libcurl and neon. And possibly > > some thought into, eg, urllib in python but urllib really needs to die > > in favor of something nicer like urlgrabber on top of libcurl > > Just a note, I'd like to see the desktop standardize around libsoup, > for two primary reasons: > > 1) Mainloop integration Why do "desktop people" keep proposing things that are _only_ acceptable in a monolithic desktop application? Or do you seriously expect yum/anaconda/wget/whatever to use APIs that work by directly hooking into the glib main loop? Also SSL support doesn't use NSS, and ftp support is non-existant. NTLM/GSS support is also non-existant. > 2) Hopefully forthcoming support for reading Firefox cookies > > There are some custom Python bindings in progress now if you swing > that way Ohh ... _in progress_ python bindings -- James Antill -- <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Please, no. Let's not pull in a dependency for something as simple as a string library." -- Kristian Høgsberg <krh@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
