On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 00:50 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote: > Now that GTK+-2.8.0 is out, the GTK+ team would like to announce Project > Ridley. > > GOALS: > > The primary goal of Project Ridley is to cut down on the number of > problem libraries that are part of the GNOME platform. We propose to do > this by moving functionality into GTK+, wherever it makes sense. These > libraries are generally small, undermaintained, and buggy. They have an > unclear purpose (such as libgnome and libgnomeui), are copied-and-pasted > around (such as libegg) or would benefit by being in GTK+ (libgnomeprint > and libgnomeprintui.) > > We have been sending confusing messages to ISVs, free software and > otherwise, as to what they should be using to develop applications. By > cleaning up these widgets and deprecating the libraries, we can make it > much simpler for developers. To emphasize the 'consolidated platform' > message, we are considering to call the GTK+ version incorporating the > results of Project Ridley GTK+-3.0. > > The secondary goal is to bring people currently working on the platform > together in a coordinated effort. We would love to bring more people > into the GTK+ team and get people working on the platform again. > > WHO SHOULD GET INVOLVED: > > Anyone who's currently writing code for platform tasks. As we're > targeting GTK+ for this work, it has to be written in C. > > HOW TO GET INVOLVED: > > We put up a a wiki page detailing the tasks we'd like to accomplish at: > > http://live.gnome.org/ProjectRidley > what about libsoup/network library? Wouldn't it also make sense to move it to a libgnet in glib? -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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