[Cream-browser-devel] cmake ; Gnet and Curl deleted ; VTE

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Hi all,

=== CMake ===

  rhaamo re-wrote the build system using cmake ( http://www.cmake.org )
instead of autotools.
It's better, faster and easier to maintain and to use. So I wrote a little
build.sh script to
build automatically Cream-Browser (easier for the developper who only want
to test).

=== Gnet & Curl ===

  In Cream-Browser, the library GNet was used to create the UNIX socket
server and to connect
to the server in the object FtpClient and GopherClient.
On the IRC channel, somebody told me that :
> GNet is maintained, but not developed any further. You should not use it
in new software.
We can read this on the website of GNet :
http://live.gnome.org/GNetLibrary
So I had deleted the library from Cream-Browser and use only sockets from
the standard library
with GIOChannel from the GLib.

  Maybe you saw on the git repository the new object 'FtpClient' (old name
: 'GFtp'). It was
to delete the Curl dependancy and use a FTP client home-made. Currently
it's not finished but
I disabled FTP support in the CreamView object and delete Curl from the
dependancy list.

=== VTE ===

  rhaamo sends me some patches. A new module, the VTE module. Based on the
VTE Terminal library
it allow you to open a terminal into the browser ! (to edit web pages with
vim, see it directly
into a WebView and debug with the DOM inspector). Of course it is
optional, if you don't have the
library installed, it wont build the VTE support, if you have the library
installed but you don't
want to, you can disable via the build.sh script (or cmake) :

$ ./build.sh --disable-vte
or
$ cd __build__; cmake -D USE_VTE="no" ..


Cordially,
David Delassus