Re: [gmime-devel] GMime 2.99 - no more global variables

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg fifthhorseman net>]

On Tue 2017-02-07 18:29:51 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On 2/7/2017 2:22 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> > On Tue 2017-02-07 10:07:33 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> >
> > > This is just a status update. At this point, I've gotten GMime to the point
> > > where there are no longer any global variables.
> > thank you for this!
> >
> > > 1. g_mime_init() no longer takes a flags argument.
> > Is it possible that we don't need g_mime_init() at all any longer?
>
> Still need it for internal iconv caches

Presumably the iconv caches could be managed by a "gmime context"
object, if you follow the library context object model proposed by
libabc.  that's fine if you don't want to do it, just thought i'd raise
it as a common pattern to consider.

> and also to initialize glib's type system.

i'm not as sure about this one, unfortunately, but if a dependency has
an idempotent initialization action, you could certainly invoke it when
creating a new "gmime context" object.

anyway, just floating the model -- if it doesn't match your vision of
where gmime is going that's also fine. :)

      --dkg