Re: [gnet] Re: GNet library (2.0.5)
- From: Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>
- To: David Helder <dhelder gizmolabs org>, j schoenwaelder iu-bremen de
- Cc: gnet lists gnetlibrary org, Wolfgang Wieser <wwieser gmx de>
- Subject: Re: [gnet] Re: GNet library (2.0.5)
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:30:00 -0800 (PST)
What is the implementation plan ?
Who is going to handle that ?
How long will it take ?
Volunteers ? (sign me up)
Harring Figueiredo.
--- David Helder <dhelder gizmolabs org> wrote:
> The last time we discussed this I was anti-GError because I wanted to
> maintain compatibility with GLib 1. But I think we can safely drop
> this requirement.
>
> David
>
>
> On Nov 24, 2004, at 6:13 AM, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
>
> > 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.]
>
> --
> David Helder - dhelder gizmolabs org - http://www.gizmolabs.org/~dhelder
>
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