Re: Pluggable widgets II

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 21:51 +0200, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> > Tim Janik wrote:
> > > here's a refined proposal for pluggable widgets [...]
>
> This isnt really a concern, just curious...
>
> g_factory_appoint (TYPE_BAR, TYPE_BAZ);
> g_factory_appoint (TYPE_FOO, TYPE_BAR);
>
> g_factory_get_appointed (TYPE_FOO) == TYPE_BAZ ?
>
> On first thought, I would probably favour this behavior
> (i.e. above statement evaluates TRUE), but more importantly
> I was just raising that because I didnt see mention of it
> before in the mails and I just think it should be clear in
> docs etc :)

right, i'd not expect this to be a too common use case, but
maybe i'll be proven wrong on this one. in any case, i think
it makes sense to support repeated lookups for re-appointed
types, provided some measurements are taken to prevent
endless recursion ;)

> Cheers,
>                   -Tristan

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ciaoTJ