Re: libproxy as external dependency

["Felipe Contreras" <felipe contreras gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 11:21 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 17:35 +0000, Benjamin Otte wrote:
>> > pros:
>> > - current proxy handling in GNOME is a huge mess, we're all lucky we can live
>> > without proxies
>> > - the API looks extremely sane
>> > - there is nothing else that does proxying
>> > - Dan (who is going to be the main - or only? - user of it) likes it
>> > - active maintainers
>> > - no bugs
>> >
>> > cons:
>> > - I'm (luckily) not too knowledgable about proxy handling
>> > - not a lot of users
>>
>> - yet another library, slowing applications startup.
>
> only of those that might require a proxied connection, not every single
> application, which is fairly obvious.

s/proxied connection/network connection/

As a user you want all network applications to be proxy aware if you
are behind a firewall that requires a proxy.

-- 
Felipe Contreras