On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 00:10 +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: > I'm looking forward something like this for webkit-gtk > > one problem is that libsoup does not have python port > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=557777
This is what we want to have to be able to support custom protocols. > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576595 This is absolutely not required for python bindings to be developed. > what do we benefit from having a proxy class for NetworkAccessManager > that wraps libsoup > 1. we can move from libsoup to any lib without breaking things (eg. > once upon time webkit used cURL) That is much harder to do than it sounds. Of course it is doable, but it would take too much precious time we can invest into improving libsoup instead. > 2. we can add custom protocols support in yelp eg. man:// info:// ...etc. > 3. making mail readers with support for cid:// would be much easier > 4. we can make a CHM readers without extracting it (eg. using python-chm) > ...etc. All of these will be made possible by the changes proposed to soup that you linked. Why not help it move forward instead? See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[email protected]> GNOME Project _______________________________________________ webkit-gtk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-gtk
