Re: [express-devel] [uh1763@bingo-ev.de: Re: more fixes]

[Uwe H. <uh...@bi...>]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:22:27PM -0500, Brian St.Pierre wrote:
> bounced??? hmmm....

Maybe it's a problem of my ISP or my local exim...
I'll try to find out.

 
> > Stuff that, IMHO, needs to be fixed before a release:
> >   * HTTP 1.1 and 1.0 should work
> 
> Funny you mention this.  I'm working on http.c, a module that will represent
> a layer between tcp.c and open_url.c.  In this code I'll implement the guts
> of HTTP.  Just a few hours of coding last night and Tuesday have resulted in
> wonderful gains.

Great.
 
> >   * segfaults should be reduced to a minimum
> 
> should == MUST!  If the initial release is too bad, nobody will come back
> for subsequent releases...

Agreed.

 
> I would go with GNOME.  From my experience on a couple of other projects, it
> makes the front-end coding very easy.  Most of the details for common things
> are taken care of for you.

OK.
 
> > Another thing is that GNOME already has a help-browser that comes close
> > to what Express is/does. Some parts are also more sophisticated than the
> > respective functionality in Express currently is.
> 
> Hmm.  I haven't looked at this yet.  Will do that soon; maybe I'll decide
> that my efforts are misplaced...  I'll let you know.
> 
> > We have several posibilities:
> >  * rip code from gnome-help-browser (GPLed too, so no problem)
> >  * merge Express into gnome-help
> >  * drop Express and help developing gnome-help browser
> 
> I would do this before either of the first two.

<AOL>me too</AOL>. It's probably the best solution. We could take
the code/functionality that's in Express but not in
gnome-help-browser, and put it in gnome-help-browser...
It's no use keeping two projects so similar to each other.
 

> >  * keep on having two different project, maybe with Express filling
> >    some special niche
> 
> There may be some features/functionality that the help browser doesn't have
> that we want to put into express (ftp support?  other stuff like this?)

I'll try to gather some more ideas for any niche that Express could
fill, and that no other (or at least not many) other browsers do.

If I find something, I'll probably continue development of Express...

Uwe.
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Uwe Hermann <uh...@bi...>
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