Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-14 Thread nf2
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Thiago Macieira thi...@kde.org wrote: As for your argument on living on the same apartment, I disagree a bit. I think we're still at the same building stage, where we share our piping, heating, electricity, we cooperate in the building council, but we haven't

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-11 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em Segunda-feira 09 Novembro 2009, às 15:09:36, nf2 escreveu: * Just compare this to libdbus: The IPC protocol is standardized, but almost everyone uses the libdbus as the real interface. And that library links to libc, libpthread and libexpat (statically). That's one of its strengths, since

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-11 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em Quarta-feira 11. Novembro 2009, às 03.54.53, nf2 escreveu: On my system, Gtk+ links 44 libraries. I guess one less or more won't make any difference. Or, for instance a gvfs-ls / , which probably has to load about 15 libraries, takes 0.03 seconds. Therfore - I reckon - gathering unrelated

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-10 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 09:33 -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: How do you envision the optional extra support being provided? Would there be extension points that GVFS could plug into? Or compile-time optional modules like the GdkPixbuf loaders? Or would applications be expected to provide the

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-10 Thread nf2
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 23:03 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: I know you're really interested in cross-desktop VFS support, and I don't disagree with

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-10 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:49 AM, nf2 nf2.em...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 23:03 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: As I'm reading the word

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-10 Thread nf2
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:49 AM, nf2 nf2.em...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 23:03 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: On Mon, Nov 9, 2009

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-09 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 12:23 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 21:24 +0100, nf2 wrote: Obviously some could could be shared, but a straight dependency on libgio isn't necessary. Eh, some code could be shared is what i meant. ___

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 12:17 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 12:01 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: On 11/08/2009 10:54 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote: I've been working on some API for gio (more details later) that involves having an API for (de)compression. Having this

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-09 Thread nf2
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 21:24 +0100, nf2 wrote: On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: I've been working on some API for gio (more details later) that involves having an API for

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-09 Thread Dan Winship
On 11/09/2009 07:53 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: Could this be used by libsoup for websites that zlib-compress their data? It could (and eventually would), but passing data to zlib isn't the hard part of the problem there. (And this will actually be working in libsoup in 2.28.2.) -- Dan

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-09 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 12:17 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 12:01 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: On 11/08/2009 10:54 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote: I've been working on some API for gio (more details later) that involves having an API for (de)compression. Having this

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-09 Thread nf2
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Thiago Macieira thi...@kde.org wrote: Besides, glib is only a dependency of Qt on the X11 platform. I can justify a VFS API that requires D-Bus to work properly (with some effort, on some platforms other IPC mechanisms would be preferable), but I cannot do it if

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-09 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: I know you're really interested in cross-desktop VFS support, and I don't disagree with having something like that. However, the fact is that libGIO is an important part of the Gtk development stack, that contains all

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-08 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 11/08/2009 10:54 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote: I've been working on some API for gio (more details later) that involves having an API for (de)compression. Having this as a public API makes zlib a mandatory dependency for libgio (and thus the glib tarball). Hi, Will there some kind of

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-08 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 12:01 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: On 11/08/2009 10:54 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote: I've been working on some API for gio (more details later) that involves having an API for (de)compression. Having this as a public API makes zlib a mandatory dependency for libgio

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-08 Thread nf2
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Alexander Larsson al...@redhat.com wrote: I've been working on some API for gio (more details later) that involves having an API for (de)compression. Having this as a public API makes zlib a mandatory dependency for libgio (and thus the glib tarball). We

Re: RFC: Adding zlib dependency to libgio

2009-11-08 Thread Cody Russell
On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 21:24 +0100, nf2 wrote: Qt can already link GLib for the main-loop, provide Gtk+ filechoosers, thus moving forward to full VFS support seems natural. Perhaps QtVFS could be thin bindings for GIO, designing another VFS API from grounds up doesn't sound like a good idea,