On 12/15/05, Alexander Larsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 23:46 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The new Dictionary code (soon to land in gnome-utils HEAD) introduces a > > small-ish library called libgdict; it's a transport-agnostic library > > used to interface to various dictionary sources (like a RFC2229 > > dictionary server, but I plan to add support for HTTP access using > > libsoup and direct file access for StarDict dictionaries). It's based > > on GLib and GTK+, and it resides inside the gnome-utils module > > (gnome-utils/gnome-dictionary/libgdict, inside the "new-dictionary" > > branch). > > > > This library tries to address feature requests for the Dictionary, and > > fixes the leaks and unmaintainable code that plagued the old Dictionary > > code base. > > > > I'd like to propose it for inclusion in the 2.14 release: I can > > guarantee API/ABI stability, and its API is documented following the > > release rules (gtk-doc says 75% symbols coverage, but I plan to add more > > as soon as it lands in HEAD). > > Inclusion in platform or in desktop? I'd assume desktop, which means > there are less demands on stability.
Yeah. Typically this kind of 'micro-library' has gotten in the desktop without much scrutiny, which is fine. I don't see any reason why we'd say no, ebassi. Luis _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
