Re: [gnet] Re: GNet library (2.0.5)

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j schoenwaelder iu-bremen de>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 10:05:53AM +0000, Tim M?ller wrote:

> > For callbacks lets simply pass an GError * as well.
> 
> One problem with GError * is that it only exists in GLib-2.0, but not in 
> GLib-1.2. 
> 
> Personally, I think it's time for GNet to drop support for GLib-1.2 
> altogether, and to start making more extensive use of all the GLib-2.0 
> goodies. At some point we will need to start supporting non-ASCII domain 
> names (RFC3490), and the GLib-2.x unicode stuff will come in handy for that.

I would love to see usage of GError and I personally do not have a
problem to require glib 2.0. I have an SNMP engine written on top of
glib/gnet (dervived from gxsnmp code which again is derived to some
extend from btng code) and I stared to add GError arguments everywhere
so that low-level decoding errors can actually appropriately be reported
and handled. This is really worth the effort and I would love if the
gnet library functions that deal with socket would also give me usable
error information which I can forward using my API functions.

[Right now, I have to fake GError messages for things such as
 gnet_tcp_socket_new() or gnet_udp_socket_send() and this is ugly
 at best.]
 
/js

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