Re: Pluggable widget types and implementations

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Damon Chaplin wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 18:36 +0100, Tim Janik wrote:
>
> > i'm still interested in hearing use cases for multiple factories though,
> > so if anyone has arguments for allowing multiple GFactory* handles instead
> > of just two "singleton" functions:
> >
> >    /* craete instance conforming to prerequisite_type */
> >    g_factory_create (GType prerequisite_type);
> >
> >    /* appoint an implementaiton_type for a prerequisite_type */
> >    g_factory_appoint_type (GType prerequisite_type,
> >                            GType implementation_type);
>
> I think the terms "appoint" and "prerequisite" are a bit confusing.
>
> I'd prefer the simpler:
>    g_factory_create (GType type);
>
>    g_factory_override_type (GType original_type,
>                             GType override_type);

well, "prerequisite" is consistent with established naming in the type system,
and "override" doesn't really seem appropriate if prerequisite_type is a
non-instantiale interface type, and implementation_type is an instance type
which happens to implement the interface type.

any other suggestions for replacing "appoint"?

> Damon

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