Re: GNOME 2.0 Platform Alpha Deadline - Sep 26, 2001

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> On 18Sep2001 09:20AM (-0500), Bill Gribble wrote:
> > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 09:14, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > > Does something actually use - or will be using gnome-http in gnome-2.0? 
> > 
> > Gnucash uses it.  I don't know if that's enough, but it's there.  I
> > can't see any alternative short of libwww, and for the most part
> > gnome-http does what it's supposed to do with low hassle. 
> > 
> > This is an ignorant question, I'm sure (haven't paid too much attention
> > to gnome-2.0 issues) but why isn't libgal on the gnome-2.0 list? 
> > 
> 
> GAL is a non-API-committed library and contains GPL code, for both of
> these reasons it is not suitable as a platform library.
> 
> We could include it as a non-platform library if anything in the core
> release needs it.
> 

Also, i somewhy doubt it has been ported to gnome-2 apis, and a certain
amount of its functionality now has equvalents in gtk+ 2.0 making it less
of a desperate requirement.

> Regards,
> 
> Maciej
> 

	Sander

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