[webkit-efl] Dropping support for the libcurl network backend

[ryuan Choi]

Hi, guys.

I'm not sure whether we can drop libcurl when libsoup is better.

If I am right, ecore have options to support glib.
I think that It means that glib is not mandatory on Efl world.

Can we declare that webkit/efl is only available when ecore is compiled
with glib?

-- Ryuan Choi


2012년 2월 2일 오전 10:38, Gyuyoung Kim <gyuyoung.kim at samsung.com>님의 말:

> Hello Kubo,
>
> I agree with your opinion that soup macro clutter is growing. However, we
> don't test/profile which one is better yet.
> If libcurl's performance or features are better than soup, application may
> want to use libcurl instead of libsoup.
>
> I heard my co-workers have a plan to profile both libcurl and libsoup. Why
> don't we decide if we drop libcurl after the profiling ?
>
> -- Gyuyoung.
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> Sender : Raphael Kubo da Costa<kubo at profusion.mobi>
> Date : 2012-02-02 01:44 (GMT+09:00)
> Title : [webkit-efl] Dropping support for the libcurl network backend
>
> Hi there.
>
> We've supported building webkit-efl with both the curl and libsoup
> network backends for quite some time.
>
> By default, the port builds with the libsoup backend, the layout tests
> (and the skipped list) assume the libsoup backend is used, and there is
> code in ewk (ewk_cookies, ewk_network and ewk_auth, for example) which
> only works in the soup backend.
>
> Given all that, the fact that the #if USE(SOUP) clutter is growing and
> the way these #ifdefs are causing bug 77341 to be more troublesome to
> integrate than neeed, I'm inclined to drop support for the curl backend.
>
> The only current drawback I see is that we'd force the dependency on
> unstable GNOME libraries for things to work.
>
> Thoughts? Does anyone desperately need the libcurl backend?
>
> --
> Raphael Kubo da Costa
> ProFUSION embedded systems
> http://profusion.mobi
>
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