Hi ----- Original Message ----- > Hi, > > On Wed, 2016-10-12 at 11:38 -0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > > Hi > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > Hi, > > > > > > I plan to merge both uri parsers (one is in spice-session, one in > > > spice-uri). > > > These patches add more to tests to avoid regressions. > > > > > > v2 per Victor review splits IPv6 tests and checks for expected > > > warnings > > > v1: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2016-May/02 > > > 9261.html > > > > Reminds me of https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/201 > > 5-March/019288.html > > > > It's a shame to see glib so slow at picking the GUri patches. I > > personally lost interest, there are other better ways imho. > Yes it is > > > > > Tbh, instead of slowly reinventing YA URI parsing in C, > > The parser is already implemented in spice-gtk (twice). My intention > is to have just one parser in spice-gtk, after that it should be > easier to migrate another parser, fix bugs etc... Sure, but merging the two will probably result in more complex URI (and yet incomplete or incorrect) parsing. > > > I am tempted to go a step in the future and just link with the rust > > URI crate (https://docs.rs/url/1.2.1/url/). Since it's already being > > used by firefox in the latest release, I trust this is fairly solid. > > Probably it is and rust is interesting, but imho it is overkill to use > rust just to have better/safer url parsing :) Well, it would have to start somewhere. That's what firefox did (along with mp4 parsing iirc). I would be really glad to use a safer language with a very active community (contrast to glib development, stable or moribound depending on pov) > > I have done some mix of rust and C in the past, just like what Hub > > recently described in a blog: https://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?201 > > 6/10/07/862-rust-and-automake > > > > It is fairly easy, and I would be happy to link with rust code which > > is way safer than C. > > > > Of course, we would have to keep C for a while, but given that > > firefox depends on rust and Fedora ships it, gdb support it etc, > > there is a good chance it ends in every single platform we care > > about. > > I'm just curios - do you know if it is currently possible to compile > it using mingw ? Good point, I haven't looked much at that either. I know the cross-compilation story is fairly good, and you can see answer on SO about cross-windows build http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31492799/cross-compile-a-rust-application-from-linux-to-windows > Anyway I believe that is better to have tests before we change > something :) sure, I would just prefer we reuse libraries when possible instead of reinventing the wheel, and URI parsing is a good candidate. _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel