Re: [GNOME VFS] gob inside gnome-vfs ...

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Ian McKellar wrote:

> > There's one thing I don't know about gob, and 2 things that are
> > annoying. Does it handle properties ? and 1) it regenerates the .h file
> > even though nothing has changed in it (ie. you changed the
> > implementation, not the "public" api, and the fact that you have to
> > write so much crap in the Makefile.am to handle the .gob files. It
> > should be possible to write a macro for that, certainly.
> >    
>
> It handles properties really nicely but it does regenerate the .h file
> when you change the API. Its a pity, but I think maintaining some kind
> of api state would be difficult and possibly hacky. We would have to
> worry not only about the public api but also the private API.
>  
It should be fairly trivial to get GOB to write the header to a 
temporary file, and compare it with the existing header before moving it 
into place.  Don't know how much more difficult this would make the 
makefile rules.

James.

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