On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:35 PM, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 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? > > I didn't suggest that! I was saying what direction I would like the > *desktop* to take. Whether libsoup is appropriate for system > components is another discussion. Though just for reference, I do think that an event loop is the right way to structure many different kinds of programs, even those which do not use GTK+. It's unfortunate that most programming languages (and consequently, libraries like urllib or java.net.URLConnection) are not designed around the concept of a mainloop, but that's where we are. But to do the Firefox cookies right, libsoup is going to require both SQLite (to read the cookies file) and DBus (to get notifications from Firefox of changes). Now, these dependencies may not be suitable for all applications or system components, and the basic built-in HTTP functionality that comes with runtimes like urllib or java.net.URLConnection are going to be more familar to programmers, and if you don't need the extra functionality it will continue to make sense to use those. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
