Re: [webkit-dev] WebKitGtk network backend

2008-12-28 Thread Holger Freyther
On Monday 29 December 2008 08:14:02 Paul Pedriana wrote: > FWIW, I rewrote our version of the networking back-end support to use a > generic pure-virtual interface. That way all those #ifdefs in the code went > away and the back-end requirements became clearer and easier to provide. We > are using

Re: [webkit-dev] WebKitGtk network backend

2008-12-28 Thread Paul Pedriana
FWIW, I rewrote our version of the networking back-end support to use a generic pure-virtual interface. That way all those #ifdefs in the code went away and the back-end requirements became clearer and easier to provide. We are using our own http/ftp/file support that is different from libsoup,

Re: [webkit-dev] WebKitGtk network backend

2008-12-23 Thread Brent Fulgham
Hi, On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: >> The "Redistributable" WebKit on Windows currently uses the cURL >> backend. I am fully in favor of switching to libSoup for this >> platform as well, if it is known to work properly on Windows. >> > I'm not sure the "redistrib

Re: [webkit-dev] WebKitGtk network backend

2008-12-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:03 -0800, Brent Fulgham wrote: > The "Redistributable" WebKit on Windows currently uses the cURL > backend. I am fully in favor of switching to libSoup for this > platform as well, if it is known to work properly on Windows. > > I am a bit concerned that it seems to be he

Re: [webkit-dev] WebKitGtk network backend

2008-12-23 Thread Holger Freyther
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 16:28:59 Dan Winship wrote: > Christian Dywan wrote: > > in fact Glib is a requirement, libSoup relies essentially on features > > of the GObject system. But that is already it. There are no Gnomish > > requirements on top of that, the libsoup-gnome library is optional a

Re: [webkit-dev] WebKitGtk network backend

2008-12-23 Thread Kevin Ollivier
Hi Brent and all, On Dec 22, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Brent Fulgham wrote: Hi, On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 21:29 +0100, Christian Dywan wrote: So, I'd like to suggest to make libSoup the only backend. We would then require a recent (unsta

Re: [webkit-dev] WebKitGtk network backend

2008-12-23 Thread Dan Winship
Christian Dywan wrote: > in fact Glib is a requirement, libSoup relies essentially on features > of the GObject system. But that is already it. There are no Gnomish > requirements on top of that, the libsoup-gnome library is optional and > not needed for normal functionality. Actually, libsoup req

Re: [webkit-dev] WebKitGtk network backend

2008-12-22 Thread Christian Dywan
Am Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:03:36 -0800 schrieb "Brent Fulgham" : > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Gustavo Noronha Silva > wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 21:29 +0100, Christian Dywan wrote: > >> So, I'd like to suggest to make libSoup the only backend. We would > >> then require a recent

Re: [webkit-dev] WebKitGtk network backend

2008-12-22 Thread Brent Fulgham
Hi, On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 21:29 +0100, Christian Dywan wrote: >> So, I'd like to suggest to make libSoup the only backend. We would then >> require a recent (unstable) libSoup, similar to how Gtk+ depends >> on the latest (unstable)

Re: [webkit-dev] WebKitGtk network backend

2008-12-22 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 21:29 +0100, Christian Dywan wrote: > So, I'd like to suggest to make libSoup the only backend. We would then > require a recent (unstable) libSoup, similar to how Gtk+ depends > on the latest (unstable) Glib. Xan Lopez has agreed already on IRC. As someone who has been build

Re: [webkit-dev] WebKitGtk network backend

2008-12-21 Thread Arthur Webkid
Hello I am +1 for this. Do you have any IRC log so we can follow your reasoning with this matter? Best Regards -- Arthur Webkid 於 日,2008-12-21 於 21:29 +0100,Christian Dywan 提到: > Heya, > > the Gtk port of WebKit currently supports two network backends, that is > Curl and libSoup. The plan al

[webkit-dev] WebKitGtk network backend

2008-12-21 Thread Christian Dywan
Heya, the Gtk port of WebKit currently supports two network backends, that is Curl and libSoup. The plan always was to improve libSoup to an extend where it supersedes Curl, but libSoup is deemed not mature enough up to this day. As far as I'm aware most of the Gtk contributors are in favour of dr