Re: Glib: a Win32 discussion

[Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk pl gmail com>]

2011/4/6 Kean Johnston <kean johnston gmail com>:
> Everyone,
>
> WARNING: long, detailed message. If you don't care about Win32, move on.

Other annoying Windows issues specific to glib:

1. GOption fails hard for filenames which are in a language different
than your Windows. E.g. Chinese or Russian filenames on English
Windows. The arguments passed to main() contain "?" in place of the
Chinese / Russian characters and that's just not enough information to
correctly identify the file. More detail in the bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522131

2. GApplication. Mentioned in the mail. This functionality is
traditionally implemented using named mutexes and shared memory.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2285110/restrict-application-to-one-instance-per-shell-session-on-windows

3. GSettings using the registry. This means portable apps (in the
sense of apps that you can carry with you on an USB stick:
http://portableapps.com/) cannot use it, because they have to store
the settings somewhere on the USB stick, not in the registry. It
should be possible to use dconf on Windows.

Regards, Krzysztof