Re: [Evolution-hackers] ebook api plans for 1.6

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Chris,

On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 03:21, Chris Toshok wrote:
> The test-ebook.c file I've attached gives a small example of using the
> new synchronous api.  It iterates over the list of email addresses,
> which are at present just a list of EVCardAttribute's.  Is this way of
> doing things satisfactory?

	It looks nice to me, I can't help feeling that things like:

	gpointer get_foo ();
	void     set_foo (gpointer);

	Might be better done using the GValueArray thing - which for all it's
intrinsic clunkiness might give a better result - perhaps with some
extra boxed types. The contract just seems rather unsafe via a gpointer.

> any thoughts?  I'm less concerned about getting this right for
> evolution, since we've already proven we're willing to work with rather
> broken apis :)  I'm more concerned with it being useful for others.

	Another thought is; that if this API is going to be ABI stable, it's
well worth adding gpointer dummy[4+]; to each publicly exposed interface
- so that virtual methods can be added later.

	HTH,

		Michael.

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