Hi, On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Partha Bagchi <parth...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine < > alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 9:34 PM, Partha Bagchi wrote: >> >> > I am perplexed to see that we need glib-networking suddenly since my git >> > pull from a couple of days ago? Is there a reason to requiring glib >> > networking support? >> >> To quote from https://git.gnome.org/browse/gimp/commit/?id= >> bb196607693b2a8fa95f033966506cbf3c377d81 >> >> "Use a code test inspired by libsoup configure test. This is a hard >> dependency because HTTPS should not be considered an option anymore. >> Nowadays most websites will use HTTPS by default, HTTP gives SEO >> penalties and browsers are starting to display various security >> warnings on HTTP websites. Also the experience will be significantly >> degraded without SSL/TLS support since the help browser will fail to >> load the manual remotely, and opening various remote files on secure >> protocols will fail. Note: the test cannot be performed while >> cross-compiling. In this case, we will just display a warning for >> packagers to be at least well aware of this dependency." >> >> Alex >> >> Yes, I read the quote but am still perplexed. the only (?) place we need > http/https support is to load images from an URI? Is it not sufficient to > make that optional instead of introducing one more dependency?
No, there are at least 2 features affected: open remote files indeed and the help browser (help will fail showing with an error since our websites are now https only). This last one was getting quite a lot of report on the tracker and was very bad experience. Anyway nowadays https is the standard for web access. Not supporting this is not acceptable IMO. Jehan > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list -- ZeMarmot open animation film http://film.zemarmot.net Patreon: https://patreon.com/zemarmot Tipeee: https://www.tipeee.com/zemarmot _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
