Re: Privatizing 'linc' ...

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 12:51, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="The Face of Sun Microsystems">
> 
> > > > So - as I'm working on completing ORBit2's threading support; I keep
> > > > wondering why linc was made a public API when it was so half cocked.
> > > > 
> > > > 	I'd really rather like to privatise linc inside ORBit2;
> > > 
> > > It makes sense to me. I think it would have minimal impact.
> > 
> > It makes sense to me from a desktop point of view, but haven't we already
> > made a guarantee of API/ABI compatibility since it's a platform library?
> > Obviously I have no idea of the types of people using it, but I'm not sure
> > if it right to just pull it back into ORBit2 until we get to some kind of
> > major release.
> 
> Yeah, we can't "get rid" of linc in a 2.x timeframe due to our API and ABI
> commitments in major release series. If linc was as 'broken' as gnomeprint*,
> we could potentially do something with it, but... Surely it's not. :-)
> 
> I was under the impression that linc could be more widely useful if people
> actually knew about it? (Is there a need for linc, gnet, libgtcpsocket,
> etc., or can we get the functionality of the latter two into a platform lib
> through linc at some stage?)
> 
I was precisely thinking on having a libgnomenetwork in gnome-network,
and so have been looking at those libraries you mention. It is indeed a
good idea if we could merge all those in a networking platform library.

cheers