Le jeudi 26 octobre 2006, à 14:03, Elijah Newren a écrit : > On 10/25/06, Alexey Rusakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > >> GNOME Network Proxy Resolver provides proxy lookup with PAC support via > > >> DBUS. This allows other programmes to support the "Automatic proxy > > >> configuration" option from GNOME control centre's Network Preferences > > >> without embedding a JavaScript interpreter just for this tiny feature. > > > > > > You rock! > > > > > > That feature was missing for ages in the control-center (and GNOME > > > applications). This fixes a bunch of very old GNOME bugs like: > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123900 > > > > > > Can we get this in 2.18? :) > > I'm afraid - no, we can't :( The module proposal period is over. Although > > this really rocks, and it's by no means useless. > > Well, the deadline was extended as noted with Vuntz' email[1], but > more importantly is perhaps addressing a side issue here that seems to > not be well known. If you look up the email explaining the module > proposal rules[2], you find this snippet: > > "...A dependency can be proposed for inclusion AFTER the 2.15.1 > release..." > > i.e. after the "End of new (app) modules proposal period" listed on > the schedule. The reason for this little rule (and the parenthetical > "(app)" on the schedule) was because we were thinking about the case > of new small libraries created to help fix bugs in existing desktop > modules. If such modules were small and were written to fix problems > in desktop apps, we thought it might be wise to allow them any time > before feature/module freeze instead of just any time before 2.odd.1 > as with other modules. As far as I can tell, it looks like the GNOME > Network Proxy Resolver falls into this special case we wanted to > allow, and thus should still be open for consideration.
So, hmm, just pinging: Christian, are you willing to propose this for 2.18, or do you think it's too early? Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
