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 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 dropping Curl and supporting only libSoup. > > If libSoup is the only backend, we can easily make use of libSoup API > in applications, which means we don't have to dublicate interfaces in > WebKit. And distributions will build one WebKit build, instead of half > of them using a different backend. In the end libSoup will become as > stable as it has to be, if the time invested in maintaining Curl > support can instead go into improving the libSoup code. > > Note that with regard to packaging, libSoup is "a walk in the park" > compared to WebKit, it is built easily and quickly. And it is > portable, that is it doesn't depend on GNOME and it is usable for > instance on Win32. As far as stability is concerned, libSoup surely > isn't less stable than rendering or scripting in WebKit trunk. > > 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. > > Of course, we actually have a use case, that is we agreed to introduce > libSoup specific API: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22624 > > If anyone has a good reason for not doing this, please speak up now or > remain silent forever ^_^ > > Yours, > Christian > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
