Adding JSON library to libpurple dependencies

[Eion Robb]

Personally, I've only ever required >=0.8.0 since that's when 64bit
int support was added

On 28 September 2012 08:11, Tomasz Wasilczyk
<tomkiewicz.groups at gmail.com> wrote:
> One little concern: which version should I require? There is 0.14 with
> JSONPath support, but not available in stock repositories of older
> distros (openSUSE 11.4). I suppose, we cannot include JSONPath related
> source code from upstream for fallback when using with json-glib 0.12?
> But: do we support old distros with 3.0.0 tree?
>
> I made this dependency conditional - required only when compiling with
> GG support [1]. Isn't it too much complication of dependency tree?
>
> Tomek
>
> [1] http://hg.pidgin.im/pidgin/main/rev/6cb7038d8172
>
> 2012/9/26 Eion Robb <eion at robbmob.com>:
>> I thoroughly recommend json-glib.  It's fairly lightweight and has a
>> mostly sane API, and its inclusion in every distro I've come across
>> makes it very handy for json stuffs.
>>
>> On 26 September 2012 05:04, Tomasz Wasilczyk
>> <tomkiewicz.groups at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am asking here for adding any JSON support library to required
>>> dependencies of libpurple 3.x, maybe JSON-GLib (licensed under LGPL).
>>> Is there any chance for it? I need it for introducing new features for
>>> GG protocol.
>>>
>>> Another thing, we talked before on devel at conference.pidgin.im, was
>>> adding any http library to dependencies. We considered libsoup and
>>> libcurl. I asked for it before [1], but I'm not sure, if I got
>>> official answer (Ethan said, he's for it). Can I just push any of
>>> these libraries to configure.ac?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Tomek
>>>
>>> [1] http://pidgin.im/pipermail/devel/2012-July/010892.html
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