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Bug 593656 - libgnet is deprecated
libgnet is deprecated
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gcompris
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Bruno Coudoin
Rami Aubourg-Kaires
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-08-31 11:53 UTC by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Modified: 2012-08-02 21:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 2009-08-31 11:53:33 UTC 
Hi,

According to http://live.gnome.org/GNetLibrary, gnet is deprecated. gcompris should probably switch to glib and/or libsoup.
Comment 1 Bruno Coudoin 2012-04-02 21:04:06 UTC 
The feature that uses the gnet library is not documented and not used in GCompris.

Thus the good decision is to removed the feature completely.
Comment 2 Peter Albrecht 2012-08-02 14:43:44 UTC 
In gentoo linux, gcompris has a "use flag" called "gnet", which is dokumented with "will let GCompris fetch content from a web server".

Calling "gcompris --help" one can find a commandline switch "--server : GCompris will get images, sounds and activity data from this server if not found locally.". This is also dokumented in the german users manual (http://gcompris.net/wiki/Benutzerhandbuch). (But not in the english one: http://gcompris.net/wiki/Manual)

I thought gnet will be needed for this function. But I have not tested it, since I have no use for "data stored on a server".
Comment 3 Peter Albrecht 2012-08-02 14:59:29 UTC 
Another "gnet"-bug: bug #681076