Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

[Jody Goldberg <jody novell com>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:31:00PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 07:44 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:37 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > what about libsoup/network library? Wouldn't it also make sense to move
> > > it to a libgnet in glib?
> > 
> > I'm also for this, right now we are using multiple networking libraries
> > and we fix the same bugs in multiple places.  I think its odd as a
> > platform we have no "official" way to great an http/network connection
> > (yes libsoup is in the platform for evolution, but for instance
> > gnome-vfs uses neon).
> > 
> 
> Shouldn't http be in a unified library with other IO? (i.e. we'd want to
> look at the whole of gnome-vfs functionality perhaps)

If we're going there the libgsf style structured file support belong
in the same bundle.