On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 15:01 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le mardi 21 octobre 2008, à 10:30 -0400, Nathaniel McCallum a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to propose libproxy (LGPL 2.1+; > > http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/) as a blessed external dependency for > > GNOME 2.26. libproxy is currently used by vlc and neon and libsoup and > > webkit are considering adopting it. > > The only argument I see against libproxy is "yet another library while > we're trying to reduce the number of libraries" and people seemed to > agree that this is actually not a real issue.
Personally, I'm less concerned with how many libraries we happen to depend on to build Gnome than I am with how many interfaces we're presenting to our third-party developers. Ideally, I'd love to see a GLib-level networking library. If that happened to use libproxy, wonderful. But since we don't have the single point of entry right now, exposing libproxy as a potential interface to our developers seems like the reasonable thing to do. That is to say, we should only reduce the number of libraries through unification, not through reduction of features. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
