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Re: [ITP] libsoup2.4
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 12:10:04 +0200
- Subject: Re: [ITP] libsoup2.4
- References: <4AC2F1C3.90402@users.sourceforge.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sep 30 00:50, Yaakov S wrote:
> LibSoup is a GObject HTTP library that is used by numerous GNOME
> packages. It is an official GNOME Desktop Suite component and is
> included by all major distros.
>
> The split between libsoup-2.4 and libsoup-gnome-2.4 is done in order to
> avoid a circular dependency (libsoup-2.4 -> libwebkit-1.0 -> libproxy
> [WebKit JS module] -> libsoup-gnome-2.4). This is done on Debian and
> Gentoo as well.
> [...]
Go ahead, Yaakov. Feel free to keep cygwin-pkg-maint updated yourself.
Thanks,
Corinna
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