Re: [PATCH 2/2] Use GIO wrappers in mp4_tag.cc

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> > Excuse the uninformed question, but what is the benefit for using the
> > GIO wrapper instead of the native TagLib stuff? Just curious.
>
> Eventually, I want to use GFile throughout, and avoid passing filenames 
> around and converting between filesystem encoding and display encoding.  
> In this case, I think it is just a nice bit of conformity with most 
> other bits of EasyTAG that are now using GIO rather than stdio. The 
> Ogg/Vorbis code was ported to use GFile/GIO not so long ago and in a 
> similar way.

ah, of course.